Studies of a Swan, 1880-1900

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 15.56 × 23.81 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.712

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.19a

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Ormond, Violet Sargent
Sargent, Emily
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Exhibition History

1983: John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, pp. 18, 55, fig. 6, no. 28, repro

2009: John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009-2010

Bibliography

1927: Charteris, Evan. John Sargent. New York: Scribner's, 1927, p. 68.

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. 105, no. 690.