DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Inscription from Sta. Maria Maggiore

19th-20th century

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Description

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

8.7 x 23.2 cm (3 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Study of a Visitation Scene after della Robbia

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Seated Man with Folded Arms; verso: Study of a Girl

Marie-Adélaïde Castellas-Moitte, after 1797

Black ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

18th-19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled (notes and designs for exhibition poster, left page); Untitled (notes and designs for exhibition poster, right page)

Otto Piene, 1991

Black marker on paper

Drawings

Christ

Eustache Le Sueur, c. 1646

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite, laid down on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream card, extended at top and bottom

17th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled [Quimper]

Lyonel Feininger, 7/7/1931

Graphite on paper and mounted

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

The Lady with the Rose; verso: Sketch of a Seated Woman

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1897

Black ink, gray wash, and graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

High Mountain Landscape with Rocks

Franz Kobell, 18th-19th century

Brown ink on buff laid paper

18th-19th centuryGerman

Drawings

[Three figures walking]

Lyonel Feininger, 1940s-1950s

Black ink on slide film, hand colored

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Main Road at Legefeld]

Lyonel Feininger, 9/4/1923

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Sketchbook: Review of Early Sky Events

Otto Piene, 1992

Mixed media

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus; verso: Sketch of the same composition

Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 19th century

Black chalk and gray wash on heavy white wove paper; verso: black chalk

19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Manor House, Schauen, 1932-1933: Glassed-in veranda: plan, sections, elevation, and details, 1:50

Carl Fieger, 1932-1933

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman