1937.7.24.5: Sketch of a Studio Interior with Reclining Figure; verso: Sketches of a Spanish Dancer

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.24.5

People

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

Title

Sketch of a Studio Interior with Reclining Figure; verso: Sketches of a Spanish Dancer

Other Titles

Former Title: Sketch of an Artist and a Reclining Model; verso: Sketches of a Dancer

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

c. 1880-1881

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/195080

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)

Dimensions

26 x 35.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 5

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

1937.7.24.5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Sargent's Spanish Dancer: A Discovery", The Magazine Antiques (March 1992), vol. CXLI, no. 3, pp. 460-471, verso reproduced, p. 466-7, fig. 6
• Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 22, p. 162, both recto and verso reproduced
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 230, 261-261, fig. 133 (verso), fig. 135 (recto)
• Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond, Sargent & Spain, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2022), cat. no. 16 (verso), repr., p. 243

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 09/10/1992 - 11/22/1992
• Sargent & Spain, National Gallery of Art, 10/02/2022 - 01/02/2023; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 02/11/2023 - 05/14/2023

Related Works

• 1937.7.24.1-5

  John Singer Sargent

  Sketchbook ("1880"): Figural Sketches

  Drawings

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