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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
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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

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