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John Singer Sargent, American (1856 - 1925)
Studies of Quarry Workers with Ropes (recto and verso), 1911
Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)
25.3 cm. x 36.5 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.23.10

Marks:
inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 10

Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1911, 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:
Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1993), p. 171, catalogue no. 82/83, fig. 2, reproduced in b/w

Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, verso repr. p. 28

Keywords: Figure studies / Italy