Study of General Louis Botha for "General Officers of World War I"

1920-1922

John Singer Sargent

Associated Names
John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

The image is a pencil sketch of a person standing upright. The person has their arms crossed over their chest and their legs slightly apart. The facial features are roughly sketched, showing a prominent nose and mouth. The individual is dressed in a jacket, trousers, knee-high boots, a belt, and a rope or cord hanging from the waist. The background is blank.

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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

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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. 115, no. 763.

  • 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. 113, no. 101.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.80

Wikidata ID

Q64584060

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