Studies for "General Officers of World War I"

1920-1922

John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Sargent Ormond (sisters of the artist), Surrey, England; National Gallery (now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC, 1929, left in storage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 114, no. 102, repro

Bibliography

1967

  • Gross, Ellen, and James Harithas. Drawings by John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alhambra, California: Borden, 1967.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 115, no. 764.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Luigi di Luca - 73 Draycott Ave. / S.W.; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 6.63; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 17.1.2; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: S.6.63; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 17.2; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 17.2

Watermarks

MICHALLET / FRANCE

Wikidata ID

Q64584015

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