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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Sketchbook ("1868-69"); Travel Sketches and Copies after the Antique, 1868 - 1869
Sketchbook with black paper-covered cardboard covers and leather spine
20 cm. x 30 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.1
Marks:
inscription: front pastedown, graphite: Professor Attwell [K. O. C.?] / Nassau School / Barnes / London S. W.
label: front of album, black ink on paper: 1868 - 9
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1868 - 1869, 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:
Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 29, note 7
Stephen D. Rubin, John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks: A Young Artist's Perspective (New York, NY, 1991), p. 13
Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 2000), p. 48, under no. 8; p. 49, under no. 9
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. 100
Trevor Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine, p. 78, note 5
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. 16-17
Keywords: Copies after Paintings / Copies after Sculpture / Figure studies / Italy / Landscapes / Switzerland