Study for
Scorpio for "Phaethon"
John
Singer Sargent
-- American
painter
c. 1922-1924
Fogg
Art
Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Graphite on
off-white laid paper, squared
316 cm. x 291 cm., actual
Signature: graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent
Gift of John Singer Sargent, to Agassiz Museum,
1963.159
Jpg:
Sargent at Harvard
Studies
for Phaethon
Phaethon
(finished
mural)
Stairway
Ceiling Decorations
Looking
straight up
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
Notes:
Marks:
label: back of frame, paper,
graphite, l.r.: John S. Sargent: F.W. Bayley and Son / Copley Gallery /
103 Newbury Street / Boston
Label on back of frame: F.W.
Bayley and Son/ Copley Gallery/ 103 Newbury Street/ Boston See also oil
sketch for "Atlas and the Hesperides," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in
which the scorpion is replaced by the crab, or Cancer.
Provenance:
Sargent, John Singer
(Creator).
Created c. .1922-1924.
Agassiz Museum, Harvard
University (Owner)..
Fine Arts Department, Harvard
University (Owner)., Transfer from Fine Arts Department 1963.
Agassiz Museum, Harvard
University (Owner)..
Fine Arts Department, Harvard
University (Owner)., Transfer from Fine Arts Department 1963.
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