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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Asher Wertheimer, c. 1898
Graphite on off-white wove paper
24 cm x 15.1 cm, actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.11.9
Marks:
inscription: l.r., red-brown ink: 9
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1892 - 1898, 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:
David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 130, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York, NY and London, England, 1970), p. 248
Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 1982), repr., fig. 256, p. 175
Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1983), p. 56, under cat. 30
Kate F. Jennings, John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 1991), repr. p. 13
Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed., John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1999), p. 17, fig. 11
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 133, fig. 72, under no. 347
Jacqueline Ridge and Dr. Joyce Townsend, "John Singer Sargent's Later Portraits: The Artist's Technique and Materials", Apollo, repr., p. 23
Keywords: Portraits--Male