1931.101: Study of Lady Charles Russell (Adah Williams), verso: Study for Sitwell Family portrait

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1931.101

People

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

Title

Study of Lady Charles Russell (Adah Williams), verso: Study for Sitwell Family portrait

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1900

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306533

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

28.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/8 x 9 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.l., graphite: J. S. 115

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

1931.101

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 121, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
• James Lomax and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age, exh. cat., Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, England, 1979), p. 62
• Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), under no. 57
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), p. 5, fig. 3

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