Study for a Mural in the Boston Public Library or the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925

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about 1890-1924

Charcoal on laid (L. Berville) paper; squared in graphite for transfer

Sheet: 24 13/16 × 18 15/16 in. (63 × 48.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist

D.929.10.8

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed. Inscribed, on reverse: "Danaid"

Exhibition History

John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Cocoran Gallery of Art, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-November 27, 1983.

Publication History

Charles M. Mount, "Some Works by Sargent at Dartmouth", Bulletin I, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1966.

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 52, no. 227.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 245.

Provenance

The artist; by descent to Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent Ormond (Mrs. Francis) [the artist's sisters], 1925; given to the present collection, 1929.

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