Study for a High-Relief Plaster Figure Crowning the "Prometheus" Mural, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
about 1917-1919
Charcoal on laid (Arches Ingres MBM) paper
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 24 15/16 in. (47.6 × 63.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist
D.929.10.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2020
Exhibition History
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-November 27, 1983.
Publication History
Charles M. Mount, "Some Works by Sargent at Dartmouth", Bulletin I, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1966.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 52, no. 227.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 244.
Provenance
The artist; by descent to Emily Sargent and Violet Sargent Ormond (Mrs. Francis) [the artist's sisters], 1925; given to the present collection, 1929.
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