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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.91
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Acis and Galatea," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Other Titles
Former Title: Revenge
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1916-1924
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230666

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.8 x 61.9 cm (28 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.)
framed: 89.5 x 79.4 x 5.1 cm (35 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of stretcher, paper: 730

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24-27, 1925, lot 177 as "Revenge;" purchased by Marshall for Scott and Fowles, New York; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, May 1937; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.91
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 177 (as "Revenge")
  • Evan Charteris, John Sargent, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1927), p. 296 (as "Revenge")
  • Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), p. 453 (XK8) as "Revenge"
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • 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. 339-41, cat. no. 359, reproduced in b&w, p. 341
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), no. 1793, repr., p. 305

Verification Level

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