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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.58
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for "Elsie Palmer" (1873-1955)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1889-1890
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311196

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 49.2 cm (30 x 19 3/8 in.)
framed: 87.3 x 59.7 x 3.2 cm (34 3/8 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dorothy Palmer, sister of the sitter; purchased from her by Scott and Fowles, New York, 1937; purchased from them by Grenville L.Winthrop, New York, February 10, 1939; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.58
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Miss Elsie Palmer later became Mrs. L. H. Myers.

Publication History

  • Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), no. 8917, p. 432
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 115, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 139, under no. 48
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), cat. no. 188; pp. 191 - 193, repr. in color p. 192
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 14
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 305, cat. no. 320, reproduced in color

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