1937.8.36: Two Small Sketches of Cellini's "Perseus," Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.36

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Two Small Sketches of Cellini's "Perseus," Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1909-1910

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310215

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper laid down to off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 25.4 x 36.2 cm (10 x 14 1/4 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

1937.8.36

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Two sketchbook pages have been mounted together here and given one accession number. One is 17.2 x 11 cm, one is 17.5 x 11 cm.

Publication History

• 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), pp. 309-310, under no. 284
• 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. 110, n. 46; p. 132, n. 16
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), fig. 111, p. 240

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