Harvard Art Museums > 1942.23: Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar" 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"Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar" (John Singer Sargent) , 1942.23,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 07, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307847. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1942.23 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar" Other Titles Former Title: Portrait of Madame Karsavina as Thamar Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1911-1912 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307847 Physical Descriptions Medium Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper Dimensions 59.7 × 45.2 cm (23 1/2 × 17 13/16 in.) frame: 88.9 × 67.3 cm (35 × 26 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: charcoal, l.l.: To Lady Ripon/ John S. Sargent label: back of frame, paper: 5981. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Lady Ripon; [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1924, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Accession Year 1942 Object Number 1942.23 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. 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 Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 52, repr. "Alumni Notes", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, February 7, 1942), reproduced p. 318 David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 104, Check List of Sargent's Portraits Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 131, fig. 8 Trevor J. Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1983), cat. 20 Jane Dini, "The Artist as Choreographer: Sargent's Murals at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", American Art (Fall 2002), vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 11-29, p. 18-19, repr. fig. 8 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), under no. 490 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