1937.8.40: Sketch of a Statue of Vertumnus in the Gardens of the Villa Falconieri, Frascati, Florence, with Latin Inscription

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.40

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Sketch of a Statue of Vertumnus in the Gardens of the Villa Falconieri, Frascati, Florence, with Latin Inscription

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1907

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310385

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 15.5 x 23.4 cm (6 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: above image, graphite, handwritten: Inscription on statue of Vertumnus at / Villa Falconieri Frascati / Aspice Vertumnum Poma Dantem Puellis / Mala Sunt qua Cernis Deterior Latent

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

1937.8.40

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), p. 129, n. 8
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), fig. 142, p. 272

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