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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.1.2
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Antinous, after a Sculpture
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1868 - 1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198710

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
29.1 x 19.2 cm (11 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Antinous / Vatican - Rome
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: 2
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: 2

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
1937.7.1.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie Shelley, "'Splendid Mountain,' a Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent", Metropolitan Museum Journal (New York, NY, 1993), vol. 28, pp. 185-205, p. 205, note 25
  • Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), p. 101

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