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John Singer Sargent

Draped Figure

Description

Maker

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

Title

Draped Figure

Year

ca. 1920

Medium

  • charcoal on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • charcoal on paper

Materials

charcoal

Supports

  • Blue-grey textured medium weight laid paper

Dimensions

61.3 x 47.6 cm (24 1/8 x 18 3/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, through Thomas A. Fox

Object Number

29.135

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Joseph Lindon Smith and His Circle in Dublin, New Hampshire
Oct 14, 1998 – Mar 03, 1999

Label copy

During the last decade of his life, Sargent was a prominent fixture in Boston's social and artistic life. Shortly after he anived from England in 1916 to install his completed murals in the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts commissioned him to decorate the dome of its rotunda. His second museum commission came in 1922, the same year he accepted a commission to paint murals for Harvard University's Widener Library. Sargent was a prolific draftsman, and drawings like this impressive study of drapery were an important part of his working process.

During this period, Sargent and Smith were in frequent contact and had many mutual friends. Sargent was a guest of the Jameses and the Smiths in Dublin, where his old friend and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner also visited every summer. Sargent made his last visit to Dublin in 1924, the year before he died.

Nude Figure
Some Works from the Permanent Collection
Dec 20, 1996 – Apr 20, 1997

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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)
Draped Figure, ca. 1920
Charcoal on paper
61.3 x 47.6 cm (24 1/8 x 18 3/4 inches)
Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, through Thomas A. Fox 29.135

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