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Asher Wertheimer
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
c. 1898
Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Graphite on off-white wove paper
24 cm x 15.1 cm, actual
inscription: l.r., red-brown ink: 9
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1937.7.11.9
Jpg: Harvard University Art Museums



Asher Wertheimer
Asher Wertheimer
c. 1898 

Notes:

Bibliography

David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 130, Check List of Sargent's Portraits

Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York and London, 1970), p. 248

Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 1982), repr., fig. 256, p. 175

Edward J. Nygren, John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington DC, 1983), p. 56, under cat. 30

Kate F. Jennings, John Singer Sargent (New York NY, 1991), repr. p. 13

Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed., John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum (New York NY, 1999), p. 17, fig. 11

Jacqueline Ridge and Dr. Joyce Townsend, "John Singer Sargent's Later Portraits: The Artist's Technique and Materials", Apollo, September 1998, repr., p. 23

Provenance

Sargent, John Singer (Creator). Created 1892 - 1898, 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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