- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1984.625
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Henry Lee Higginson
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1911
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/309302
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Charcoal on off-white laid paper1999.111
- Dimensions
- 62.4 x 48.2 cm (24 9/16 x 19 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: charcoal, l.r.: John S. Sargent
- inscription: l.r., charcoal, in artist's hand: To my friend Henry L. Higginson
- watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE
- Provenance
- Alexander Henry Higginson, by descent; to Cecile Higginson Murphy, Boston, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1984
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Cecile Higginson Murphy
- Accession Year
- 1984
- Object Number
- 1984.625
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Bliss Perry, Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson, Atlantic Monthly Press (Boston, MA, 1921), repr. opp. p. 480
David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 102, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
Richard Dyer, "Now Playing" [Boston Symphony Hall Centennial], The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (October 8, 2000), ill. p. 22
Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and National Portrait Gallery (New York, 2019), cat. no. 26, repr.
- Exhibition History
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John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 10/04/2019 - 01/12/2020; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 02/28/2020 - 05/31/2020
- Related Works
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