1943.319: Madame Gautreau (Madame X)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.319

People

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

Title

Madame Gautreau (Madame X)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1883

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299840

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

24.6 x 26.6 cm (9 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Scott & Fowles, New York; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1919; his bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.319

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 65, repr.
• Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, Abaris Books (New York, 1978), pl. 266
• Doreen Bolger Burke, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, 1980), p. 232
• Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), p. 82, fig. 113
• Trevor J. Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1983), cat. 4
• Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 101, under no. 26
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), pp. 113 - 118, repr. in b/w p. 116
• 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. 181, under no. 168
• Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), p. 76; repr. p. 77, fig. 3.8
• Susan Sidlauskas, "Painting Skin: John Singer Sargent's 'Madame X'", American Art (Autumn 2001), vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 9-33, p. 15, fig. 9
• Deborah Davis and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Madame X Speaks", The Magazine Antiques (November 2003), CLXIV, no. 5, pp. 116-125, p. 116, 122, fig. 5.
• Deborah Davis, Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (New York, 2003), repr. p. 131
• Mark G. Mitchell, "Drawing Out Sargent", Drawing (American Artist) (Fall 2006), pp. 18-37, repr. pp. 2 (detail), and 19
• La Traviata, brochure, Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (Moscow, Russia, 2012), reproduced on the cover
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 103 n. 6
• Giulio Dalvit, Aimee Ng, and Xavier F. Salomon, The Eveillard Gift, exh. cat., The Frick Collection and Paul Holberton Publishing (New York, 2022), pp. 159-161, repr. p. 160 as fig. 80
• Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 161, repr. p. 162

Exhibition History

• Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

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