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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.169
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Prometheus," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1916 - 1921
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226700

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
114.3 x 114.3 cm (45 x 45 in.)
framed: 118.1 x 118.1 x 3.8 cm (46 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Violet Ormond to the School of Architecture [later part of Graduate School of Design], Harvard University, c. 1930; transferred to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (assumed to be a Gift of Emily Sargent and Violet Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent)
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.169
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Corporation Records", Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, June 1931), v. XXXIX, p. 514
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 339-40, cat. 358, ill. p. 340
  • Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), p. 115 note 32

Exhibition History

  • The Sargent Collection of Studies and Preliminary Work for Decorations in the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1927 - 12/31/1927
  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project
  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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