Harvard Art Museums > 1937.8.12: Spanish Male Dancer before Six Seated Figures Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Spanish Male Dancer before Six Seated Figures (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.8.12,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jan 10, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/299835. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.8.12 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Spanish Male Dancer before Six Seated Figures Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1879 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299835 Physical Descriptions Medium Dark brown ink on off-white wove paper Dimensions 13.2 x 20.8 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/16 in.) 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 1937.8.12 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 The drawing is made on the back of a bill from M. Villasante, a Madrid hatmaker Publication History David Sellin, American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington DC, 1976), p. 66, repr. as fig. 98 Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), p. 66, fig. 93 Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Sargent's Spanish Dancer: A Discovery", The Magazine Antiques (March 1992), vol. CXLI, no. 3, pp. 460-471, reproduced, fig. 1, p. 463 Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 7, pp. 136-137 James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 24B, 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. 126 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, figure 34, reproduced in b&w 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 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
