1933.46: Study for "Sermon on the Mount," Boston Public Library; verso: Study for "Synagogue" and "Church," Boston Public Library

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.46

People

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

Title

Study for "Sermon on the Mount," Boston Public Library; verso: Study for "Synagogue" and "Church," Boston Public Library

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1916-1919

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310616

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on dark cream wove paper

Dimensions

26.2 x 41.1 cm (10 5/16 x 16 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.), 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.)

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.46

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sally M. Promey, "Sargent's Truncated Triumph: Art and Religion at the Boston Public Library", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (June 1997), vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 217-250, p. 225; reproduced in b/w fig. 14; verso, p. 244, reproduced in b/w fig. 35
• Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), verso, p. 205, under no. 97
• Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), recto, p. 43, fig. 20; verso, p. 223, fig. 113
• Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 126, fig. 5.17 (recto)

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