John Singer Sargent's Study of Donatello's Saint John
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Study of Donatello's Saint John
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
Date? (possibly 1880)
Fogg Art Museum
Graphite on off-white wove paper
30.7 x 22.1 cm
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Jpg: Sargent at Harvard


Head of Donatello's Saint John, Frari, Venice
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
Date? (possibly 1880)
Fogg Art Museum
Graphite on off-white wove paper
22 cm. x 30.7 cm., actual
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.8.55
Jpg: Sargent at Harvard
 
 
Study of Donatello's Saint John
 
The date of this sketchs ares unknown, though I know he was painting the outside of the Frari in 1880 and the brevity of the sketch falls in line with the same kind of energy of the Two Studies for El Jaleo which were c. 1879-82. 
 

See Donatello's St. John  in Juxtaposition with Sargent's 
 
 
Donatello  
Italian sculptor, Florentine school  
(c. 1386 -1466) 
 
St. John the Baptist 
c. 1450 
John Singer Sargent


Study of Donatello's Saint John
 

John Singer Sargent 
Campo dei Frari, Venice 
Campo dei Frari, Venice  
1880  
 
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