Studies for "Entering the War" [recto]
1918
John Singer Sargent
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on 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
sheet: 25.4 × 36.83 cm (10 × 14 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2015.19.672.a
Associated Artworks
Two Shattered Trees; and Study for "The Road" [verso]
John Singer Sargent
1913
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
1926
Exhibition of the Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy, London, England, 1926
1979
John Singer Sargent in the Edwardian Age, Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, 1979
1983
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 97, no. 83, 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
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. 112, no. 745.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: American; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.35
Wikidata ID
Q64584056