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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.11.9
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Asher Wertheimer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
c. 1898
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/197951

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24 x 15.1 cm (9 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., red-brown ink: 9

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
1937.7.11.9
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. 130, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Harper & Row (New York, NY and London, England, 1970), p. 248
  • Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), repr., fig. 256, p. 175
  • Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 56, under cat. 30
  • Kate F. Jennings, John Singer Sargent, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1991), repr. p. 13
  • Jacqueline Ridge and Joyce Townsend, "John Singer Sargent's Later Portraits: The Artist's Technique and Materials", Apollo (September 1998), 148, no. 439, repr., p. 23
  • Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed., John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, exh. cat., Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1999), p. 17, fig. 11
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 133, fig. 72, under no. 347

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