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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Sketch of the Base of Cellini's "Perseus," Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, c. 1909-1910
Graphite on beige wove paper
29.1 cm. x 22.9 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.33
Marks:
inscription: in the artist's hand, right edge at center: [Notes about highlights, illegible]
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created c. 1909-1910, 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), 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
Keywords: Copies after Sculpture / Italy / Mythology