Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.209
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Frieze of Prophets," Boston Public Library
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1894 - 1895
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230581

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
117 x 188 cm (46 1/16 x 74 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.209
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 617
  • Lydia Vagts, "John Singer Sargent: The Preparatory Oil Sketches for His Murals at the Boston Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1993), Unpublished, passim
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 189, under no. 79
  • Ken Gewertz, "Sargent: Portrait of the Artist in his Workshop", Harvard University Gazette (June 10, 1999), pp. 31, ill. p. 31
  • Christine Temin, "Sargent's Expansive 'Studio' at the Fogg", The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, June 22, 1999), ill. p. E3
  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), repr. p. 31, fig. 1.15 and p. 157, fig. 6.2 (detail)
  • 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. 314-15, cat. no. 324, reproduced in b&w, p. 315
  • Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 143, fig. 6.25

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926
  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu