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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1931.92
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for Edith Foster Vickers (Mrs. Albert Vickers)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1884
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306522

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
33.3 x 23 cm (13 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: J. S. 37(?)3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent
Accession Year
1931
Object Number
1931.92
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), p. 127, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), pp. 133 - 135, repr. in b/w p. 135, fig. 63
  • Christine Temin, "Sargent Season", The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (Boston, MA, June 27, 1999), ill. p. 16
  • Andrew Delbanco, Writing New England: An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA/London, 2001), ill. p. 157
  • Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siecle Art (University Park, PA, 2010), p. 77, fig. 60

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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