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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.24
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for Victory, for "Death and Victory," Widener Library, Harvard University
Other Titles
Former Title: Studies of a Seated Female Figure, Arms Upraised (Mrs. Osburn)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1921-1922
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
63 x 48.2 cm (24 13/16 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent
  • watermark: L. BERVILLE (FRANCE) / [in script:] Lalanne
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, erased, in artist's hand: [previously inscribed:] Mrs. Osburn 209 Huntington Ave / tel. B.B. 52471

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Scott & Fowles, New York; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1924; his gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Lower right of page has significant erasure.

Publication History

  • Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 70, repr.
  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 111, Check List of Sargent's Portraits

Exhibition History

  • Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/17/2017 - 01/07/2018; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

Verification Level

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