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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.45.C
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for Crucifix, Boston Public Library
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
1893 - 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231340

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted and gilt plaster with wire support
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
72 x 79 x 8.5 cm (28 3/8 x 31 1/8 x 3 3/8 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.C
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 192, under no. 81
  • 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. 2, p. 58; fig. 13, p. 64; fig. 14, p. 65 [A, B, and C]
  • [Reproduction only], Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000)., 1933.45.A and C repr. in color on cover
  • 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.
  • New Acquisitions: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture 1780-1960, auct. cat., Shepherd & Derom Galleries (New York, Fall 2012), under cat. no. 24
  • A Rediscovered Maquette by John Singer Sargent for the Crucifix at the Boston Public Library, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, 2017), passim
  • John Thomas, Redemption Achieved: John Singer Sargent's "Crucifixion of Christ with Adam & Eve" and Its Place in His Work, Twin Books (Wolverhampton, 2017), pp. 17, 18, 27, 28

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

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