John Singer Sargent's Boats on the Elbe
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Boats on the Elbe
verso: Study of a Head
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1871
Fogg Art Museum
Graphite on gray wove paper
9.5 cm. x 15 cm., actual
inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 16
inscription: l.r., graphite: Elbe 
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.6.16
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums
 
Notes: 

Bibliography 

Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1999-2000, repr. p. 19 
 
 

Provenance  
   
Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created, To his sisters, Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, at his death 1925. 

Sargent, Emily, and Mrs. Francis Ormond (Owner). From their brother, the artist, at his death 1925, Gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum 1937.  
 

 
 

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