Tree Trunks [verso]
1868-1869
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
image (irregular): 6.35 × 4.13 cm (2 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.)
sheet: 18.42 × 26.67 cm (7 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.686.b
Associated Artworks
The Alps [recto]
John Singer Sargent
1868
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
Bibliography
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. 101, no. 663.
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, p. 34, no. 1.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.238; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1868v9 [crossed out]
Wikidata ID
Q64584123