Study for "Acis and Galatea," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1939.91
People: John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title: Study for "Acis and Galatea," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Other Titles: Former Title: Revenge
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1916-1924
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230666

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

71.8 x 61.9 cm (28 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.)
framed: 89.5 x 79.4 x 5.1 cm (35 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: back of stretcher, paper: 730

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24-27, 1925, lot 177 as "Revenge;" purchased by Marshall for Scott and Fowles, New York; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, May 1937; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.91

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 177 (as "Revenge")
Evan Charteris, John Sargent, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1927), p. 296 (as "Revenge")
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), p. 453 (XK8) as "Revenge"
John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
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. 339-41, cat. no. 359, reproduced in b&w, p. 341
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), no. 1793, repr., p. 305

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