Forearm and
Hand Holding
a Book, after Andrea del Sarto
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
Date? (1874?)
Fogg Art
Museum
Black chalk
on off-white
wove paper
26.3 cm. x
34.3 cm.,
actual
Inscription:
l.l., graphite:
J. S. 133,
l.r.,
graphite: Andrea
del Sarto
Gift of Miss
Emily Sargent
and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer
Sargent,
1931.98
Jpg: Harvard
University Art Museums
See
Sargent's
drawing in Juxtaposition:
Notes:
Although
the
Fogg doesn't date the work, these very careful studies of the Masters
are
often indicative of his early work. For the sake of narrative, I have
placed
it in the year 1874 when he was studying at the Accademia in
Florence.
Certainly the students would go to the Uffizi from time to time to copy
the Masters and this could have been one of them.
Still,
it could
just as easily be part of his studies for the mural work he was doing
in
Boston in the 90's and beyond, so it's hard to say.
Bibliography
Alvin
L. Clark,
Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies,
brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12,
no. 43
Exhibitions
Drawing
on
Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard
University
Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995
Provenance
Sargent,
John
Singer (Creator). Created, To his sisters, Emily Sargent and Mrs.
Francis
Ormond, at his death 1925.
Sargent,
Emily,
and Mrs. Francis Ormond (Owners). From their brother, the artist, at
his
death 1925, Gift to Fogg Art Museum 1931.
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