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Inscription

lower center in charcoal: Olimpio Fusco / 63A Aspinlea Rd / Hammersmith; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: Ch. 2.; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: S.6.57

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

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. 146
1983
John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, pp. 20, 58, fig. 8, no. 33, repro
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 42-44, no. 22, repro
1999
"Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999, fig. 4, repro
2006
John Singer Sargent: Portraits and Models, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006
2009
John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009
2020
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 4, 2019 - January 12, 2020, ca.10, pp.88-89.

Bibliography

1967
Gross, Ellen, and James Harithas. Drawings by John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alhambra, California: Borden, 1967.
1983
Fairbrother, Trevor. Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent. New York: Dover, 1983, fig. 29.
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. 106, no. 695.

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