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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.22.13
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Blank page; verso: Transcription of “Je plains le temps de ma jeunesse” by François Villon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
c. 1904
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195628

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
12.7 x 18.3 cm (5 x 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 13
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Si ne suis, bien le considère, / Fils d'ange portant diadème / D'étoile ni d'autre sidère. / Mon père est mort, Dieu en ait l'âme! / Quant est du corps, il gît sous lame. / J'entends que ma mère mourra, / Et le sait bien, la pauvre femme, / Et le fils pas ne demourra. / Je connais que pauvres et riches, / Sages et fous, prêtres et lais, / Nobles, vilains, larges et chiches, / Petits et grands, et beaux et laids, / Dames à rebrasser collets, / De quelconque condition, / Portant atours et bourrelets, / Mort saisit sans exception. / Et meure Pâris ou Hélène, / Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur / Telle qu'il perd vent et haleine; Son fiel se crève sur son coeur, / Puis sue, Dieu sait quelle sueur! / Et n'est qui de ses maux l'allège: / Car enfant n'a, frère ni soeur, / Qui lors voulait être son plège.

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
1937.7.22.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The poem inscribed on this page continues on the recto of the following page.

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