1937.8.84: Four Sketches of Swans Pluming Themselves
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.8.84
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Four Sketches of Swans Pluming Themselves
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/310469
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 13.3 x 20.3 cm (5 1/4 x 8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1937.8.84
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This drawing is matted with 1937.8.82, 1937.8.83, and 1937.8.88.
Publication History
- Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 55, under cat. no. 28, note 3
- Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), p. 246, under no. 211/212
Verification Level
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