John Singer Sargent's  Two Men in Biblical Costume
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Two Men in Biblical Costume
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
c. 1895
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charcoal on blue laid paper
60.4 cm. x 46 cm., actual
watermark: : MICHALLET
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.9.14
 Jpg: Harvard Art Museums
 
 

Notes: 

Exhibitions 

Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/05/1999 

Bibliography 

Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 15, 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. 79, see note 1 
 
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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