Bedouin Women, 1890-1891

Not on View

Medium

charcoal on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 25.4 × 34.93 cm (10 × 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.711

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown: J.S. 13

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

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. 154

1983: John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 59, no. 34, repro

1999: "Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999

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, 2009-2010

Bibliography

1927: Charteris, Evan. John Sargent. New York: Scribner's, 1927, p. 136.

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. 106, no. 696.