Man with Curly Hair
1872
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on gray-green wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 18.1 × 15.88 cm (7 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
sheet: 30.48 × 26.67 cm (12 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.659
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, pp. 14, 42, fig. 3, no. 12, repro
1999
"Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999
Bibliography
1967
Gross, Ellen, and James Harithas. Drawings by John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alhambra, California: Borden, 1967.
1983
American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 104, no. 675.
Inscriptions
upper left in graphite: 1872; lower right in graphite: 1872
Watermarks
[cut off]-LES-ANNONAY MONTGOLFIER
Wikidata ID
Q64584044