Study for "Shoeing Calvary Horses at the Front" [verso]
1918
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925
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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: 17.78 × 24.77 cm (7 × 9 3/4 in.)
sheet: 17.78 × 51.12 cm (7 × 20 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.700.b
Associated Artworks
Studies for "Shoeing Calvary Horses at the Front" [recto]
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
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. 114, no. 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 in graphite by unknown hand: J. S.. 45a
Wikidata ID
Q64584129