1937.8.70: Studies for "The Spanish Dance"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.70

People

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

Title

Studies for "The Spanish Dance"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1879-80

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307678

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

28 x 38.2 cm (11 x 15 1/16 in.)

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

1937.8.70

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 12, pp. 144, reproduced
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), under no. 763, fig. 148
• Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond, Sargent & Spain, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2022), cat. no. 44, repr., pp. 49, 244

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992
• Sargent & Spain, National Gallery of Art, 10/02/2022 - 01/02/2023; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 02/11/2023 - 05/14/2023

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