Harvard Art Museums > 1937.1: Merjelen See Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Merjelen See (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.1,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307645. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.1 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Merjelen See Other Titles Alternate Title: From Sketchbook "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1870 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307645 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper Dimensions 27 x 38.7 cm (10 5/8 x 15 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: l.r., graphite: Merjelen See / Eggischhorn / July 10 / 1870 label: Labels from back of frame: Chapman Bros./ Established over Half a Century/ (Chelsea) Ltd/ Picture Restorers, Carvers, Gilders, Frame Makers, --&c./ 241 King's Rd. Chelsea (Opposite Carlyle Square)/ Telephone: Kensington 674 ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR DECORATIVE GILDING Telegrams: Framable, Fulroad, London 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 1937.1 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 186 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 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 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. 311, ill. Gabrielle Townsend, John Singer Sargent: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. pp. 82-83 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 Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939 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 John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/09/1993 - 03/07/1993 Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
