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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
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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

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