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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.9.13
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Crescenzo Fusciardi
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
c. 1890 - 1915
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310695

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on faded blue laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 61 x 46.5 cm (24 x 18 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., charcoal, in artist's hand: Crescenzo Fusciardi/ 32 Great Bath St./ Clerkenwell, E. C.
  • watermark: MICHALLET

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
1937.9.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), facing p. 145, repr.
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 110, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine (December 1981), vol. LVI, no. 4, pp. 70-79
  • Patricia Hills, "A Portfolio of Drawings", exh. cat., ed. Patricia Hills, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1986), p. 262, fig. 234
  • Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, repr. p. 35
  • Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 13, following p. 180
  • Stephen Kinzer, "Sargent Show Reveals the Bold Strokes of a Shy Painter", The New York Times (March 15, 2001), pp. B1-B2, repr. p. B2

Exhibition History

  • John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/07/1986 - 01/04/1987
  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001

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