John Singer Sargent's Sketch of a Choirboy; verso: Crucifixion Sketches
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Sketch of a Choirboy; verso: Crucifixion Sketches
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
Date?
Fogg Art Museum
Graphite and charcoal on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
34.7 cm. x 25.2 cm., actual
inscription: l.l., graphite: J.S. 99
Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent, 1931.77
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums
 
 
Crucifixion (relief)  
c 1899 
  
Notes:  
 

Bibliograophy

Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 194, under no. 81

Nancy Lloyd, "Reconstruction of Sargent's Scale Model for the Crucifix", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1999-2000, verso repr., fig. 5, p. 59 
 
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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