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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1922.167
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study of Soldier Extending Arm to France, for "Coming of the Americans," Widener Library, Harvard University
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Entering the War
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921-1922
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306138

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
47.4 x 61.5 cm (18 11/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent
  • watermark: L. BERVILLE (FRANCE) / [in script:] Lalanne

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Singer Sargent
Accession Year
1922
Object Number
1922.167
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 111, in Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Christine Temin, "Sargent's Expansive 'Studio' at the Fogg", The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, June 22, 1999), ill. p. E1
  • Jane Dini, "The Art of Selling War: Sargent's World War I Murals for Harvard University", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 67-84, p. 75, fig. 12
  • Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), p. 32, fig. 17

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

Verification Level

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