John Singer Sargent's Kneeling Model

John Singer Sargent's Male Nude Leaning Back on a Ladder
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Male Nude Leaning Back on a Ladder John Singer Sargent -- American painter c. 1890 - 1915 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Charcoal on faded blue laid paper 62.3 cm. x 47.8 cm., actual watermark: : MICHALLET / FRANCE Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.9.27 Jpg: Harvard Art Museums

Possibly Sargent had been considering this pose for an unused version of The Judgment

Sketch for the Judgement
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Bibliography

Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 27, following p. 180

Trevor Fairbrother, "A Private Album: John Singer Sargent's Studies of Nude Male Models", Arts Magazine, vol. LVI, no. 4, December 1981, p. 76, fig. 11

Provenance

Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1890 - 1915, 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.

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