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Graphite on off-white wove paper
22.9 x 29.7 cm., actual Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.20.10 inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 10 The Wyndham Sisters 1899 Notes: Bibliography Kathleen Luhrs, ed., American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY and Princeton, NJ, 1980 - 1994), vol. III, pp. 253 - 57, reproducedCarter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 1982), verso, p. 172, fig. 252 Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 2000), verso: p. 211 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), verso: p. 156, fig. 102, under no. 368 Provenance Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created c. 1895 - c. 1901, 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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