Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.584
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Emily Winthrop Miles (Mrs. Corey Lucien Miles)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1924
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307997

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, l.l.: John S. Sargent 1924
  • watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1924; his bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.584
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

  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 131, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), p. 217
  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent and America, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, NY, 1986), pp. 343-45, fig. 101
  • Ed Kirby, Seldom Told Tales of Sharon, Sharon Historical Society (Sharon, Connecticut, 2008), p. 187, repr.

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