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1890 (Cont.) thru 1891
Title
Moroccan Street
c. 1890 - 91
Sargent at Harvard, Boston
Unstretched, on cardboard 8/94
27 3/4 x 36 in (actual)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Old Man with Dark Turban
c 1890-91
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas supports, 1993
20 x 22 in (actual)
Framed 24 x 26 in
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Old Man with a White Turban
c 1890-91
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Oil on canvas
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas supports, 1994
71.12 cm. x 66.04 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.201


Man with a White Turban
c 1890-91
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Oil on canvas
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas support, 1993
32 3/4 x 21 3/4 in (actual)
Framed 37 x 26 in
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Old Man with White Beard
1890 - 1895
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Oil on canvas
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas supports, 1994
88.9 cm. x 66.04 cm. x 1.91 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.203


Man in Blue Turban
c 1890-91
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas supports, 1994
40 x 33 x 3/4 in (actual)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Interior of a Bath House
c 1890-91
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Unstretched, on cardboard, 8/94
33 x 25 3/4 in (actual)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Two Seated Arabs, Palestine
 c. 1890-1906
Fogg Art Museum, Boston 
Graphite on off-white wove paper
18.2 cm. x 12.8 cm., actual
inscription: l.l., graphite: Palestine 
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.96


Massage in a Bath House
c 1890-91 204 KB
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Unstretched, on cardboard 8/94
25 3/4 x 33 in (actual)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond


Study of Arab Women
Date
Owner?
Charcoal
Size?


Study of a Head of a Bull
1891-1892
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Graphite on white wove paper
18.2 cm. x 12.7 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.5





The Sphinx
c 1890-1891
Private collection
Watercolor
35.88 x 47.63 cm (14.12 x 18.75 in.)  


Profile of an Egyptian Pharaoh
1890-1891 ?
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Graphite on off-white wove paper
23.9 cm. x 14.6 cm., actual
inscription: u.r., graphite: C. 31
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.133


Study of an Egyptian Architectural Facade
1891
Fogg Art Museum, Boston
Charcoal and graphite (fixed) on off-white wove paper
35.4 cm. x 25.8 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.137


Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
1890-91
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 53.3 cm (25 x 21 in.)
Gift of Francis Ormond, 1950


Bedouin Women Carrying Water
1891
Private Collection
Oil on canvas
20.5 x 13.5 in.



Cliffs at Deir el Bahri, Egypt
1890-1891 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Oil on canvas
34.9 x 62.9 cm (13 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.24)


The Fellah Woman
Date?
Private
Oil
22 x 18 in. 


Bedouin Women
c.1891
Private Collectioin
Oil on panel
13.88 x 10.25 in.



An Egyptian Woman
c 1890-1891
Metropolitan Museum, New York

Oil on canvas
64.8 x 53.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.21)




Egyptian Woman With Earring
1891?
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Oil
28 x 21 1/4 in.
no. 36121103


A Bedouin Arab
c. 1891
Private collection
Oil on canvas
66 x 51.4 cm (26 x 20 1/4 in.)


Head of an Arab
c.1891
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Oil on canvas
80.01 x 58.74 cm (31 1/2 x 23 1/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
37.49



Two Architectural Studies
c. 1891
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oil on canvas
80.33 x 63.5 cm (31 5/8 x 25 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond 37.48


Market Place
1890's 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper
25.3 x 35.4 cm (10 x 13 15/16 in.)
Signature, Marks, and InscriptionsInscriptions: [on verso at center top]: 5 /10 [encircled]; [at lower left]: SW 
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.28)


Egyptian Girl
1891
Natasha Essay
Private collection on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago
Oil on canvas
185.4 x 58.4 cm (73 x 23 in.)


Door of a Mosque
c. 1891
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oil on canvas
61.28 x 80.01 cm (24 1/8 x 31 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond 37.50 


A Mosque, Cairo, 1891
1891
Private collection
Oil
14.1 x 18.7 in.


A Mosque, Cairo
1891 
Private collection 
Oil on canvas 
44.45 x 66.04 cm (17.5 in x 26 in.) 


Sunset at Cairo 
1891 
Private collection
Oil on canvas
62 x  75 cm (24.5 x 29.5 in.)

 
Constantinople
1891
Private collection
Watercolor on paper 
14.6 x 34.3 cm (5 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)


Road in Constantinople
1891

Private collection
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 24 1/2 in


Santa Sofia
c. 1891 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Oil on canvas
80 x 61.6 cm (31 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.18)


Interior of Hagia Sophia
1891
Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY
18" x ?

(See photos of the Hagia Sophia)



Sketch of Santa Sofia
1891
Natasha
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Oil on canvas 
80 x 61.6 cm (31 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


Temple of Denderah
1891
Owner?
Size?



Frieze of the Prophets (Study)
Boston Public Library Murals
c. 1892
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 71.12 cm (22 1/8 x 28 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
37.45



Two heads for Boston mural - The prophets (study)
Date: unknown assumed to be 1891-92
Private collection
Oil on Canvas
59.0 x 87.0 cm (23.2 x 34.3 in.) 


The Conversation, Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Lewis
1891
Natasha
Private collection
Pencil on paper
10 x 7.5 in.
Inscribed lower left .. Amalfi, Miss Lewis and her German admirer was opposite do you remember?
-1890                 (34 years old)
Year In Context

1890 Continued . . . 

Wanting additional inspiration for classical subjects for his Boston Public Library murals, he takes an extended trip and travels with his mother and two sisters first to North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East.
 

The Men in Turbans

The studies of the men in turbans resemble but are not identical with the prophets who herald the Christian era in the pre-Christian section of the Boston Library murals (installed in 1895). 

According to the Sargent at Harvard site, John believed that his Middle Eastern subjects had changed little since the Biblical era, and probably rightfully so at that time. 
see footnote 1
 

1891                           (35 years old)
Year In Context

January: he rents a studio in Cairo Egypt, paints the nude Egyptian Girl, and travels up the Nile to Luxor.

April: finds him in Greece and goes to Constantinople, Turkey.













When he returns to England he exhibits La Carmencita (1890) at the Royal Academy. And exhibits at the Society of American Artist -- portrait of Beatrice Goelete.

In the summer, the plot to keep Violet away from her lover Francis Ormond through trips aboard has failed and they are engaged to be married. 

July: John visits the Villa Ormond at San Remo, Italy. Violet, his baby sister, is married in Paris -- John attends. She would have been approximately 21 years old.

Back in London, he helps move his other sister, Emily, and his mother to 10 Carlise, Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, for his mothers first "permanent" residence she's had in 35 years.

His friend Abbey sets up a studio at Morgan Hall Fairford, Gloucestershire, near Cambridge, with his wife and mother-in-law. It's a nice rural setting and away from the big city of London and the whimsical distractions of the Broadway group. In November Sargent joins him there and here they begin the library murals together. Prior to Sargent arriving, Abbey had written to Paris for art students that wanted to study under them. Two were chosen: James Finn and Wilfrid de Glehn.  de Glehn would become a life long friend of Sargent. 

Abbey writes to Boston on John's progress.

John will spend a portion of every year with Abbey at the studio until 1894, when the first section of the cycle, the north wall is finished. Angelo Colarossi and Nicola D'Inverno  both served as regular models.  D'Inverno would later become a  studio assistant and a valet to JSS in London and on his travels abroad.

Sargent is elected associate of the National Academy of Design, New York.
 


 
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