1937.8.22: Seated Musician

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.22

People

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

Title

Seated Musician

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study for "El Jaleo"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1879-1880

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307748

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.3 x 20.9 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/4 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

1937.8.22

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. 5, pp. 132-133
• 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. 163, under no. 138

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011

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