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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.56
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Cathedral, Granada, Spain
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1912
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307867

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
52.1 x 38.4 cm (20 1/2 x 15 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent; l. r. Granada
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink, in artist's hand: Granada
  • label: back of frame, paper, printed: SCOTT and FOWLES / Dealers in High Class Paintings / 667 Fifth Avenue / New York

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24-27, 1925, lot 14; purchased by Scott and Fowles, new York; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, August 1926; his gift to the 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
1942.56
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 14
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 335, cat. no. 352, reproduced in b&w
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), no. 1691, repr., pp.103 n.1, 270, 285, 387
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 16 on p. 85

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/18/2019 - 10/31/2019

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