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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.581
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Portrait Head of Carmencita
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Head of Carmencita
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1890
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307975

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
30.5 x 20.3 cm (12 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: center left of verso, graphite: 2466

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Singer Sargent [estate sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd, London, July 24, 1925, no. 78] sold; to [Scott & Fowles, New York],[1] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1926, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

[1] The buyer of record, Marshall, served as the agent for Scott & Fowles

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.581
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mrs. Alice Christiana (Thompson) Meynell, The Work of John S. Sargent, R. A., W. Heinemann, Ltd/C. Scribner's Sons (London, England and New York, NY, 1903), repr. full page, b/w (unpaginated)
  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 78
  • Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 75, repr.
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 87, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • James Lomax and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age, exh. cat., Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, England, 1979), p. 50-51
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 20, fig. 35, under no. 234

Exhibition History

  • Fourth Exhibition, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 10/01/1894 - 10/31/1894

Verification Level

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