Study for "Hell", 1903-1916

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 61.91 × 47.63 cm (24 3/8 × 18 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2014.136.190

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 2.6.4; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: S.4.12; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 2.6.4

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

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. 150

1980: The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 23

1983: John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 64, no. 43

1986: John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1986-1987

1998: John Singer Sargent, Tate Britain, London, England, 1998, no. 94 [not exhibited at National Gallery of Art, Washington or Museum of Fine Arts, Boston venues]

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

2007: Sargent/Sorolla, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Spain; Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France, 2007, p. 190, no. 61

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

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. 107, no. 705.

2001: Fairbrother, Trevor. "Man Screaming by John Singer Sargent." American Art 15, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 84-86, fig. 1.

2010: Syme, Alison. A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siècle Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, pp. 225-226, fig. 193.