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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.204
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Massage in 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/230618

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.4 x 83.8 cm (25 3/4 x 33 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
1937.204
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, "Sargent's Genre Paintings and the Issues of Suppression and Privacy", Studies in the History of Art series (Washington, DC, 1990), vol. 37, pp. 29-49, p. 38, fig. 12
  • 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Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1993), Unpublished, pp. 8, 24, appendix B, fig. 9
  • 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, cat. no. 321, 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. 937, repr. p. 236
  • Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), pp. 255-256, fig. 19

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