Study for North Wall with Side Walls, Special Collection Hall, Boston Public Library
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1890 - 1895
Fogg Art Museum
Oil on canvas
62.87 cm. x 84.77 cm., actual
Francis Ormond, 1937.213
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums

Studies of North End
 Index



General view of North End, Sargent Hall, Boston Public Library 
 
 
The Israelites Oppressed  lunette and Frieze of the Prophets 
(North End)


Boston Public Library


Notes: 

Provenance 
 
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1890-1895, To his sisters, Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, 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

Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 182, under no. 73

Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 58, fig. 30

Sally Promey, "Sargent's Truncated Triumph: Art and Religion at the Boston Public Library", The Art Bulletin, June 1997, p. 230; reproduced in b/w p. 232, fig. 22
 
 

 

Created 6/9/2003