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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.8.3
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Profile Portrait of J. Carroll Beckwith
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1874
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310079

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on gray wove paper
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 cm (9 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: J. C. Beckwith / June 1874

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.8.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 84, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age: The Documents, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1979), no. IV-C
  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1983), cat. 1
  • Pepi Marchetti Franchi, "Carroll Beckwith, Passionate Conservative of American Art", Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. (New York NY, 1999), repr. p. 14, fig. 2
  • Pepi Marchetti Franchi and Bruce Weber, Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), exh. cat., Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. (New York, 1999), p. 15, fig. 2
  • Roberta J.M. Olson, "John Singer Sargent and James Carroll Beckwith, Two Americans in Paris: A Trove of their Unpublished Drawings", Master Drawings (Winter 2005), XLIII, no. 4, pp. 415-439, p. 420, fig. 10

Exhibition History

  • John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age: The Documents, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 10/17/1979 - 12/09/1979

Verification Level

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