1937.2: The Matterhorn

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.2

People

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

Title

The Matterhorn

Other Titles

Alternate Title: From Sketchbook "Splendid Mountain Watercolours"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1870

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307621

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

38.8 x 27 cm (15 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., graphite: Matterhorn / L. Corner Glacier / Zermatt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 183
• John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
• Stephen D. Rubin, John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks: A Young Artist's Perspective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1991), p. 8
• Marjorie Shelley, "'Splendid Mountain,' a Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent", Metropolitan Museum Journal (New York, NY, 1993), vol. 28, pp. 185-205, p. 192
• 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. 66, under no. 17; p. 94, under no. 17kk
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 295-96, cat. 312, ill.
• Bob Raczka, Before They Were Famous: How Seven Artists Got Their Start, Millbrook Press (Minneapolis, MN, 2011), p. 17, repr.
• Gabrielle Townsend, John Singer Sargent: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 83
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), p. 90

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926
• Unidentified Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, 1944, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 02/01/1944 - 02/28/1944
• Young America: Artists Under Forty, Brandeis University, Waltham, 06/06/1954 - 06/20/1954
• American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
• Landscape into Art, Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, 02/06/1962 - 02/25/1962
• John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/09/1993 - 03/07/1993

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