1929.287: Studies for "Three Dancing Figures," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1929.287

People

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

Title

Studies for "Three Dancing Figures," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Two Studies of Female Nude

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1917-1919

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306581

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal and graphite on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

47.5 x 63.1 cm (18 11/16 x 24 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., graphite: Miss Louise Riddell/ 98 Hemenway Street / Suite 16 / tel. B.B. -9263
• inscription: graphite: 10.2.10
• watermark: L. BERVILLE (FRANCE) / [in script:] Lalanne
  
• inscription: l.r., graphite: Mrs. [ ]

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, 1929.

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

1929

Object Number

1929.287

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 82, under no. 66
• Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), p. 195, fig. 99

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