John Singer Sargent's The Matterhorn
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The Matterhorn
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1870
Fogg Art Museum
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
38.8 cm. x 27 cm., actual
inscription: l.r., graphite: Matterhorn / L. Corner Glacier / Zermatt
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.2
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums
 
  
 
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Bibliography

John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated

Stephen D. Rubin, John Singer Sargent's Alpine Sketchbooks: A Young Artist's Perspective (New York, NY, 1991), p. 8

Marjorie Shelley, "'Splendid Mountain,' a Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent", Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 28, 1993, pp. 185-205, p. 192

Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York NY, 2000), p. 66, under no. 17; p. 94, under no. 17kk

 
 Exhibitions

Winter Exhibition, John Singer Sargent, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926

Unidentified Exhibition, Berkshire Museum, 1944, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 02/01/1944 - 02/28/1944

Young America: Artists Under Forty, Brandeis University, Waltham, 06/06/1954 - 06/20/1954

American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958

Landscape into Art, Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, 02/06/1962 - 02/25/1962

Provenance 
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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