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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.21.10
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Blank page; verso: Study of a Lily, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1885
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198485

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.7 x 34.6 cm (9 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 10

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
1937.7.21.10
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Warren Adelson and Stanley Olson, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, exh. cat., Universe/Coe Kerr Gallery (New York, NY, 1986), verso repr. in b/w p. 68, fig. 38
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), under no. 33 (10 verso)
  • Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), pp. 186-187, under no. 175
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 120, verso repr. p. 123, fig. 51

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