Medici Chapel, after Michelangelo; verso: Egyptian Heads; Miscellaneous Sketches
1906 - 1913
Artists
Description
The sketch was made on Royal Academy letterhead; in red, it is printed "Royal Academy of Arts / London, W. / 190__" The side that is folded in is more finished and thus was considered during cataloguing to be the recto.
Dimensions
20.6 x 25.8 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Provenance
John Singer Sargent, gift; to David Murray, London, sold; [through Christie’s, London, May 28, 1934, lot 2], sold; [to Martin Birnbaum], gift; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943 A number of the drawings in this album were given to Murray (a Scottish landscape painter and Royal Academician, 1849-1933) by Sargent. Murray lived at 1A Langham Chambers, Portland Place, London.
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