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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.9
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketchbook ("1872/Dresden"): Figure and Animal Studies
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307624

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sketchbook with brown paper-covered cardboard covers
Dimensions
12.2 x 16.1 x 1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back pastedown, graphite: 6 1/2
  • label: back pastedown, brown paper, printed: Emil Geller / Kunsthandlung / Dresden / Waisenhausstr.
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite: [oriented upside down to the rest of the sketchbook:] Left at 8 1/4 / Top of hill 9 / [Engelsburg?].
  • label: front cover of sketchbook, paper, black ink, handwritten: 1872 - Dresden

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
1937.7.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, brown- cloth-covered spine and corners; [three] pencil sleeves. Pages of off-white, tan, and buff wove paper. Sewn page block. Sketchbook is incomplete, with twenty-seven pages remaining. Twenty-nine drawings.The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corner. Several pages are missing, including the page before page 1 and four pp. after p. 12 (one of these shows brown ink at the edge; another shows gray wash). The page numbering apparently occurred after their removal. Several pages (those between 16 and 23 inclusive) are blank; these blank pages are numbered.

Contents: Village scenes, figure studies, animals, some in Dresden, Carlsbad, and Engelsburg. Sailboat, windmill at Sanssouci, Potsdam, watercolor landscape, chairs.

Publication History

  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), under nos. 9, 14
  • Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, p. 21
  • Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 55

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • Sargent and the Sea, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/12/2009 - 01/03/2010; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 02/14/2010 - 05/23/2010; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 07/10/2010 - 09/26/2010

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