Harvard Art Museums > 1937.9: Album of Figure Studies 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"Album of Figure Studies (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Mar 16, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/307680. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.9 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Album of Figure Studies Classification Drawings Work Type album Date c. 1890 - 1915 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307680 Physical Descriptions Medium Album with black cloth-covered cardboard covers, and thirty drawings Dimensions 73.4 x 56.9 cm (28 7/8 x 22 3/8 in.) each page: 72.1 x 54 cm (28 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: cover of album, white chalk?: Drawings Sargent 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 1937.9 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. Descriptions Description Album with black-cloth-covered cardboard covers, brown-leather-covered spine and corners; and remains of ties. Silked- (treated with clay to resemble silk), marbled-, and gilt-paper endpapers. Fifty pages of cream cardboard adhered to stubs (linen over paper) in a post binding. A number of sheets have been removed. Contents: Primarily studies of male nudes, some of whom may be Sargent’s valet, Nicola d’Inverno. Several drawings of draped male nudes and two figures in Biblical costume for Amsterdam Bible project commissioned in 1895 (fols. 14, 16, 17A, 17B, see Fairbrother 1981, note 1; Promey 1999, p. 319, note 19). Heads of Crescenzo Fusciardi (fol. 13) and Nicola d'Inverno(?) (fol. 29). This album contains thirty charcoal drawings of models and one collotype. Most of the drawings cannot be dated, but the group was probably executed during the period from 1890 to 1915, when Sargent was involved in the Boston Public Library mural project. Publication History Trevor J. Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine (December 1981), vol. LVI, no. 4, pp. 70-79 Improper Bostonians, Beacon Press (Boston, MA, 1998), p. 91 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, pp. 34-36 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. 48, under no. 8; p. 265, under no. 233 (whole album cited) Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), pp. 104-111, 154, 180 (whole album cited); all repr. following p. 180 Dorothy Moss, "John Singer Sargent, 'Madame X' and 'Baby Millbank'", The Burlington Magazine (May 2001), CXLIII, no. 1178, pp. 268-275, note, p. 275 Stephen Kinzer, "Sargent Show Reveals the Bold Strokes of a Shy Painter", The New York Times (March 15, 2001), pp. B1-B2, p. B2 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 324, 325 note 8 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), p. 36 American Art, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, May 20, 2015), p. 13 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), pp. 290, 291 Ana Muñoz Martin, "Bodies on the Threshold: The Significance of Fabrics in John Singer Sargent's Male Nudes, 1890-1915", Visual Culture in Britain (2018), 19:1, pp. 66-88, pp. 69, 75-77, 79, 82, 83 John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, 2018), p. 154 Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), pp. 125-126, 128 Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), pp. 44, 264, 381 Exhibition History John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001 Related Objects Object Number 1937.9.8 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude Seen from Behind Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.4 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Recumbent Male Nude Leaning on His Right Forearm Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.21 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude with Raised Arms Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.3 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude with Raised Right Arm Seen from Behind Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.15 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Male Figure Studies Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.1 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Partial View of a Standing Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.9 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude with Arms Akimbo Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.14 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Two Men in Biblical Costume, possibly for "David Mourning Saul and Jonathan" Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.17.A Artist John Singer Sargent Title Study for "David in the Wilderness" Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.17.B Artist John Singer Sargent Title Study of a Sleeping Figure for "David in Saul's Camp" Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.18 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.22 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Torso of a Male Nude with Arm Raised Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.25 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Nude Reclining; verso: Study of a Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.28 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude (Nicola D'Inverno?) Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.16 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Studies of Sleeping Figures for "David in Saul's Camp" Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.24 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Nude Seen from Behind, Arm Raised Over Head Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.27 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Nude Leaning Back on a Ladder Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.29 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Nicola D'Inverno (?) Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.23 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.20 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude with His Left Hand Behind his Head Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.2 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude, Draped Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.5 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Reclining on a Stairway Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.6 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Kneeling Male Nude with Drapery Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.7 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Reclining Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.10 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Nude Seen from Behind Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.30 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Study of a Male Nude for Rotunda Relief, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Classification Prints Object Number 1937.9.11 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.12 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Standing Male Nude Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.13 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Crescenzo Fusciardi Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.19 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Seated Male Nude with Drapery; verso: Male Nude with Hand to Forehead Classification Drawings Object Number 1937.9.26 Artist John Singer Sargent Title Male Nude Reclining with Drapery Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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