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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Sketchbook ("1871-72"); Alpine Travel Sketches and Figure Studies, 1871 - 1872
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine
11 cm. x 17.4 cm. x 1.8 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.8
Marks:
inscription: back pastedown, graphite: [ ] 1.80 [possibly the price of the sketchbook].
label: front of sketchbook, paper, black ink, handwritten: 1871 - 72.
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1871 - 1872, To his sisters, at his death 1925.
Sargent, Emily, and Mrs. Francis Ormond (Owner). From their brother, the artist, at his death 1925, Gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum 1937.
Bibliography:
Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 2000), p. 110, under no. 39; p. 111, under no. 40; p. 114 under nos. 45/46
Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, pp. 20-21
Keywords: Austria / Figure studies / Landscapes