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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.207
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Judgment of Paris," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1916 - 1922
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230669

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
94.6 x 88 cm (37 1/4 x 34 5/8 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
1937.207
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This sketch shows Paris awarding the Apple of Discord to Venus while Minerva and Juno look on. This panel was not used at the Museum of Fine Arts. An oil sketch of another version of the subject is in the collection of the Huntington Library.

Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 19
  • 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, cat. no. 356, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926

Verification Level

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