John Singer Sargent's Reclining Male Nude, Draped
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Reclining Male Nude, Draped
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
c. 1890 - 1915
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
61.7 cm. x 47.2 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.9.2
watermark: : MICHALLET 
 Jpg: Harvard Art Museums
 
 
 

Notes: 
 
Exhibition

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

Bibliography 

John Esten, John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes (New York NY, 1999), reproduced in b/w p. 40

Trevor Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: the Sensualist (Seattle WA/New Haven CT, 2000), repr. as Folio 2, 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. 77, fig. 13
  

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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