1937.9.14: Two Men in Biblical Costume, possibly for "David Mourning Saul and Jonathan"
Drawings
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.9.14
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Two Men in Biblical Costume, possibly for "David Mourning Saul and Jonathan"
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Two Men in Antique Garments
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- album page, drawing
- Date
- c. 1895 - 1900
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/310492
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 60.4 x 46 cm (23 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: MICHALLET
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
- 1937.9.14
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Trevor J. Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine (December 1981), vol. LVI, no. 4, p. 79, see note 1
- Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 14, following p. 180
- Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 323, repr. p. 323, fig. 192
Exhibition History
- Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999
- John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001
Related Works
Verification Level
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