1933.45.B: Study for "Frieze of the Angels," Boston Public Library

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.45.B

People

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

Title

Study for "Frieze of the Angels," Boston Public Library

Other Titles

Former Title: Sketch for Frieze: Doctrine of the Redemption, South End, Sargent Hall, Boston
Former Title: Model for Boston Public Library decoration, Christian end

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1893 - 1903

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231264

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel with paper additions

Dimensions

100.3 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm (39 1/2 x 96 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.)

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.45.B

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 612
• Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 194, under no. 82
• Nancy Lloyd, "Reconstruction of Sargent's Scale Model for the Crucifix", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 58-66, repr. in color, fig. 14, p. 65 [A, B, and C]; detail repr. fig. 6, p. 60
• Kate Olivier, "Sargent's Scale Model for the 'Trinity' Lunette and the 'Frieze of Angels': Examination and Conservation", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 52-57, repr. in color, fig. 2, p. 53; details repr. fig. 4, p. 54; fig. 8, p. 56
• Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 90, fig. 58
• 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. 313, cat. 333, ill.
• Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 144, fig. 6.31; p. 159, fig. 7.1
• A Rediscovered Maquette by John Singer Sargent for the Crucifix at the Boston Public Library, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, 2017), passim, repr. p. 3
• John Thomas, Redemption Achieved: John Singer Sargent's "Crucifixion of Christ with Adam & Eve" and Its Place in His Work, Twin Books (Wolverhampton, 2017), p. 17

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 in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

Related Works

• 1933.45.A-F

  John Singer Sargent

  Model for the Boston Public Library, South End

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