1937.8.9: "Rape of the Sabines," after Giambologna, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.9

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
After Giambologna, Italian (Douai, Flanders 1529 - 1608 Florence, Italy)

Title

"Rape of the Sabines," after Giambologna, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1906-1910

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310247

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 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

1937.8.9

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), p. 104; repr. p. 105, fig. 4.7
• Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, Sargent e l'Italia, exh. cat., Ferrara Arte SpA (Ferrara, Italy, 2002), p. 228, under no. 27
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), p. 205, fig. 80, p. 206

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001

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