1937.212: Interior of a Bath House

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.212

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Interior of a Bath House

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1891

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230582

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

83.8 x 65.4 cm (33 x 25 3/4 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

1937.212

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1993), Unpublished, passim
• 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. 306-07, cat. no. 323, reproduced in b&w
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 218, 232, 236, 237, 354, no. 938, repr. p. 237

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