1943.315: Man Reading

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.315

People

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

Title

Man Reading

Other Titles

Former Title: Sebastiano, Sebastino, Niccola [sic] Reading
Former Title: Sebastiano (Man Reading)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1905

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307979

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

34.9 × 53.5 cm (13 3/4 × 21 1/16 in.)
mat: 63.5 × 76.2 cm (25 × 30 in.)
frame: 67.6 × 80.3 × 2.9 cm (26 5/8 × 31 5/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist to Scott and Fowles, New York, 1921; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 3, 1922; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.315

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Water Colors by John S. Sargent", American Art News (December 10, 1921), XX, no. 9, p. 2
• Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 59, repr.
• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 92, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 117, ill.
• Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), ill. p. 92, p. 66
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 46, 47, 108, cat. 55, fig. 14 (detail)
• John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
• 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), pp. 308-309, under no. 283
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 460-61, cat. 208, ill.
• Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 47, cat. 34, ill.
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 478-79, cat. 210, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• 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. 330, cat. no. 347, reproduced in color
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 283 notes 1 and 2
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), no. 1227, repr. p. 98, pp. 95-99, 338, detail repr. p. 330
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 103 n. 1
• Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4, repr.
• "Watercolors at Harvard and MOMA", website, July 11, 2023, mentioned and repr. [https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/watercolors-at-harvard-and-moma/; accessed 10-2-23]
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 87, 180, repr. as pl. 18 on p. 87, on p. 180 [detail]

Exhibition History

• Water Colors by Sargent, Scott and Fowles, 12/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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