1937.8.2: Spanish Male Dancer before Nine Seated Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.2

People

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

Title

Spanish Male Dancer before Nine Seated Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1879

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299834

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

13.3 x 20.7 cm (5 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, black ink: Recibi P O Juan Solar

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

1937.8.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The drawing is made on the back of a bill from M. Villasante, a Madrid hatmaker

Publication History

• Richard Ormond, "Sargent's El Jaleo", Fenway Court, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA, 1970), p. 5, fig. 3
• Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Harper & Row (New York, NY and London, England, 1970), p. 38, fig. 13
• Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), p. 66, pl. 94
• Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Sargent's Spanish Dancer: A Discovery", The Magazine Antiques (March 1992), vol. CXLI, no. 3, pp. 460-471, reproduced, p. 463, fig. 2
• Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 8, pp. 138-139
• Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), p. 99; repr. p. 100, fig. 4.2
• James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 24A, repr. (recto and verso), p. 16
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 226, 267, 230, fig. 127
• 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. 300, fig. 33
• Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond, Sargent & Spain, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2022), p. 15, fig. 4
• Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 112, repr. p. 113

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 09/10/1992 - 11/22/1992
• Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
• Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010

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