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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.8.24
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Two Sketches of Moroccan Figures; verso: Six Verses of a Spanish Poem/Song "Pelinera" (?)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Sketch of a Figure with Hand on Face
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1880
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310184

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
25 x 34.5 cm (9 13/16 x 13 9/16 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
1937.8.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), verso mentioned, p. 134
  • 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), verso: p. 164, under no. 139
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 285, fig. 182
  • Elizabeth Doe Stone, "Mobility and the Matter of Memory: John Singer Sargent's 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife'", Art History (March 2019), pp. 1-25, p. 17

Verification Level

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