Harvard Art Museums > 1937.7.21.1-18: Sketchbook ("Carnation/ Lily"): Sketches for Paintings Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketchbook ("Carnation/ Lily"): Sketches for Paintings (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.7.21.1-18,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299804. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.7.21.1-18 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Sketchbook ("Carnation/ Lily"): Sketches for Paintings Other Titles Alternate Title: "Carnation/Lily," containing sketches for "El Jaleo", "R.L. Stevenson", "Mme. X" Classification Drawings Work Type sketchbook Date 1880-1885 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299804 Physical Descriptions Medium Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers Dimensions 25.5 x 35 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks label: cover of sketchbook, paper, brown ink, and graphite, handwritten: [brown ink:] Carnation / Lily; [in graphite:] & Flowers. [graphite, different hand:] El Jaleo / R. L. Stevenson / Mme X. 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 1937.7.21.1-18 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Sketchbook with beige cloth-covered cardboard covers; pencil sleeve; remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white, blue, and brown wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with seventeen pages remaining. One page, now numbered 9, was inserted later, but was not originally part of this sketchbook. Twenty-five drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. The page numbered "8" is missing or has been removed from the sketchbook subsequent to numbering; a page is missing after page 9, a page is missing after page 13, and two pages are missing at the end of the book. The condition of the sketchbook is fragile, and many of the pages are loose. Contents: Studies for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" (1885-86, Tate Gallery); studies of Mme. Gautreau; studies for "El Jaleo" (1882, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) and sketches of dancers for "El Jaleo" or "The Spanish Dance" (1880, Hispanic Society, New York); studies for a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1885, private collection); sketches from a theatrical performance identified by David Fraser Jenkins of the Tate Gallery (in conversation, July 1997) as Tristan and Isolde; figure studies and sketches of faces. Publication History Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, p. 27 Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), p. 185 and ff.; p. 188, under no. 180 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 120 Elizabeth Doe Stone, "Mobility and the Matter of Memory: John Singer Sargent's 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife'", Art History (March 2019), pp. 1-25, pp. 8-10 Related Works 1937.7.21.18 John Singer Sargent Isolde and Brangäner, from "Tristan and Isolde" (recto and verso) Drawings 1937.7.21.1 John Singer Sargent Study for Portrait of Mrs. Kate Moore; verso: Three Standing Women Drawings 1937.7.21.5 John Singer Sargent Study for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" Drawings 1937.7.21.6 John Singer Sargent Back of Child's Head, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"; verso: Lanterns and Plants, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" Drawings 1937.7.21.7 John Singer Sargent Two Studies for a Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson Drawings 1937.7.21.13 John Singer Sargent Faint Study for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" Drawings 1937.7.21.15 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Girl in a Hammock Drawings 1937.7.21.16 John Singer Sargent Woman and Child in a Hammock (recto and verso) Drawings 1937.7.21.17 John Singer Sargent Figure with Arms Raised for "Spanish Dance;" verso: Isolde and Brangäne, from "Tristan and Isolde" Drawings 1937.7.21.3 John Singer Sargent Four Studies of Dancers for "El Jaleo;" verso: Reclining Woman Drawings 1937.7.21.14 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Study for "Hollyhocks" Drawings 1937.7.21.4 John Singer Sargent Profile Head and Three Faces; verso: Profile Head of Madame X (Madame Gautreau), Figures Drawings 1937.7.21.9 John Singer Sargent Study of a Woman; Two Seated Figures; verso: Studies for of a Spanish Dancer; Bearded Man with Pipe Drawings 1937.7.21.2 John Singer Sargent Four Figure Studies Drawings 1937.7.21.11 John Singer Sargent Study of Flowers and Lanterns, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"; verso: Studies for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose;" Comic Heads Drawings 1937.7.21.12 John Singer Sargent Girl with Lantern, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"; verso: Four Sketches, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" Drawings 1937.7.21.10 John Singer Sargent Blank page; verso: Study of a Lily, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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