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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.582
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Portrait of Nettie Huxley, Daughter of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley
Other Titles
Former Title: Miss Huxley, Mrs. Harold Roller
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1899
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308061

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on ivory paper mounted on board
Dimensions
20.4 x 14.7 cm (8 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, u. r.: [signed with Sargent caricature]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Scott & Fowles, New York; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1922; his bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Grenville L. Winthrop paid $450 for this work. See bill of sale in drawing department file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.582
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. 73, repr.
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 120, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 160

Verification Level

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