1937.8.36: Two Small Sketches of Cellini's "Perseus," Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.8.36
- People
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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
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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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