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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Girl with Lantern; verso: Four Sketches, all for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose", 1880 - 1885
Charcoal on darkened off-white wove paper
24.7 cm. x 34.6 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.21.12
Marks:
inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 12
Notes:
These faint sketches are for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose," a painting finished in 1885, now at the Tate Gallery in London.
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1880 - 1885, 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:
Warren Adelson and Stanley Olson, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, exh. cat., Universe/Coe Kerr Gallery (New York, NY, 1986), verso repr. in b/w, p. 66, fig. 38
Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), under no. 33 (12 verso)