Studies for "Shoeing Calvary Horses at the Front" [recto]

1918

John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

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Study for "Shoeing Calvary Horses at the Front" [verso]

John Singer Sargent

1918

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

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Exhibition History

1926

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy, London, England, 1926, no. 263, as "Shoeing Horses"

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. 114, 754.

  • Nygren, Edward J. John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983, pp. 104-105, no. 92.

Inscriptions

lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: J. S.. 45a

Wikidata ID

Q64584114

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