Harvard Art Museums > 1937.8.163: The Parting of Jonathan and David Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Parting of Jonathan and David (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.8.163,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Aug 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/310306. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.8.163 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title The Parting of Jonathan and David Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1895 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/310306 Physical Descriptions Medium Charcoal on off-white laid paper Dimensions 60 x 45.3 cm (23 5/8 x 17 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: charcoal, l.r.: John S. Sargent inscription: u.r. of verso, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: I Samuel XX v. 42 / John S. Sargent 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 1937.8.163 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions 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 Copley Society, Catalogue of Paintings and Sketches by John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1899), p. 25, no. 108(?) Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), p. 161; repr. p. 160, fig. 6.6 Richard Dellamora, Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 2004), repr. frontispiece, text opposite, also repr. cover Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 322, repr. p. 323, fig. 191 Paul Fisher, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 317, repr. p. 318 Exhibition History Sargent Loan Exhibition, Copley Hall, Boston, 02/20/1899 - 03/13/1899 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
