Study for Scorpio for "Phaethon," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1963.159
People: John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title: Study for Scorpio for "Phaethon," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Scorpion
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1922-1924
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308703

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white laid paper, squared

Dimensions

316 x 291 cm (124 7/16 x 114 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent
label: back of frame, paper: F.W. Bayley and Son / Copley Gallery / 103 Newbury Street / Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: From the artist to the Agassiz Museum, Cambridge, MA; to the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transfer to the Fogg Art Museum, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Singer Sargent, to Agassiz Museum
Accession Year: 1963
Object Number: 1963.159
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Annual Report of the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1922-1923), p. 8
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), p. 79 note 190

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