John Singer Sargent

Study of Minerva for The Judgement of Paris

Maker

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

Title

Study of Minerva for The Judgement of Paris

Year

ca. 1922

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

charcoal

Supports

Dimensions

63.5 x 48.3 cm (25 x 19 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond

Object Number

29.124

Type

Exhibition History

Changing Poses
The Artist's Model
Nov 12, 2010 – Jun 06, 2011

Label copy

Between 1922 and 1925, John Singer Sargent created a series of murals to decorate the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Each panel began with a simple compositional plan, from which Sargent worked with models to create a vast quantity of large preparatory drawings for each character and pose. This drawing, a very fast and rough sketch to capture the form of the figure, is for the goddess of wisdom Minerva within a depiction of The Judgment of Paris. As in other studies for this

project, Sargent worked with a male model, even though his subject was a goddess. After making a decision among the sketched poses, Sargent would repeat the figure with a clothed female model in order to capture the exact hang of the goddess’s robes over the appropriate torso.

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Tombstone

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)
Study of Minerva for The Judgement of Paris, ca. 1922
charcoal on paper
63.5 x 48.3 cm (25 x 19 inches)
Gift of Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond 29.124

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