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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.156
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "The Unveiling of Truth," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1916 - 1921
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230797

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.1 x 127 cm (28 x 50 in.)
framed: 80 x 135.9 x 4.5 cm (31 1/2 x 53 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: [st--] 4 [maybe directions for enlarging?]
  • label: verso, paper: MFA Special Loan Exhibition of John Sargent, no. 2354.6.
  • inscription: verso, red paint: The Unveiling of Truth by John Sargent.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24-27, 1925, lot 174; bought in by the artist's family at that sale; gift of Miss Emily Sargent to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.156
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. 174
  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 603
  • Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), p. 452
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), cat. no. 138, p. 74
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), repr. fig. 190, p.134
  • 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.341-42, cat. 360, ill.

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's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/03/1956 - 02/07/1956

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