Harvard Art Museums > 1937.209: Study for "Frieze of Prophets," Boston Public Library 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 "Frieze of Prophets," Boston Public Library (John Singer Sargent) , 1937.209,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230581. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.209 People John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England) Title Study for "Frieze of Prophets," Boston Public Library Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1894 - 1895 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230581 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 117 x 188 cm (46 1/16 x 74 in.) 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 1937.209 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions 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. Publication History Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 617 Lydia Vagts, "John Singer Sargent: The Preparatory Oil Sketches for His Murals at the Boston Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1993), Unpublished, passim Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 189, under no. 79 Ken Gewertz, "Sargent: Portrait of the Artist in his Workshop", Harvard University Gazette (June 10, 1999), pp. 31, ill. p. 31 Christine Temin, "Sargent's Expansive 'Studio' at the Fogg", The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, June 22, 1999), ill. p. E3 Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), repr. p. 31, fig. 1.15 and p. 157, fig. 6.2 (detail) 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. 314-15, cat. no. 324, reproduced in b&w, p. 315 Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum/Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 143, fig. 6.25 Exhibition History Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926 Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999 John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001 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
