Studies for "Apollo in His Chariot with the Hours"

1922-1925

John Singer Sargent

Associated Names
John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

The image shows two horse heads in pencil sketch on beige paper. The first horse head is on the left, depicted in profile with detailed features such as the eye, nostril, and mouth. The neck is outlined and blends into the paper. On the right and slightly above, there is a smaller sketch of another horse head in profile looking downward, with shadows emphasizing its features like the eye, nostril, and mouth. Both sketches show musculature and realism. There is no distinct background, with the paper serving as the backdrop for the drawings.

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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

1964

  • The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1964-1965, no. 151

1976

  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors, American Federation of Arts Travelling Exhibition, 1976-1977

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. 111, no. 740.

  • 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. 92, no. 78.

Inscriptions

lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 10.5.18; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: S.599

Watermarks

O.W.P & A.C.L

Wikidata ID

Q64584026

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