Harvard Art Museums > 1942.58: Study for "Elsie Palmer" (1873-1955) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for "Elsie Palmer" (1873-1955) (John Singer Sargent) , 1942.58,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/311196. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
