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John Singer Sargent, after Benvenuto Cellini

Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus", c. 1909/1910

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Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.5 × 22.7 cm (14 3/8 × 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Accession Number

1949.1.57

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Benvenuto Cellini (artist after) Florentine, 1500 - 1571

Image Use

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Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 16 December 1935 by R. Horace Gallatin, New York; Emily Morris Gallatin; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

2000: John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, 2000-2001, not reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.

Bibliography

1998: Little, Carl. The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent. Berkeley, 1998: repro. 14.

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