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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1922.168
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for Trumpeting Figure Heralding Victory, for "Death and Victory," Widener Library, Harvard University
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921-1922
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306139

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 47.6 x 62.8 cm (18 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent
  • watermark: CANSON & MONTGOLFIER / FRANCE / INGRES [with design]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Singer Sargent
Accession Year
1922
Object Number
1922.168
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), no. 167, p. 75

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, MFA Boston, 1928, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/01/1928 - 07/31/1932
  • Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/03/1956 - 02/07/1956

Verification Level

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