John Singer Sargent's Reclining Male Nude with His Left Hand Behind his Head
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Reclining Male Nude with His Left Hand Behind his Head,
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
c. 1890 - 1915
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charcoal on gray-blue laid paper
46.8 cm. x 61.7 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.9.20
watermark: : MICHALLET / FRANCE
 Jpg: Harvard Art Museums
  
 
 
 

Notes: 

Bibliography 

Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 5, 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, pp. 70-79 
 
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 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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