DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Design for Ornament; verso: Walking Woman with Jar on her Head

c. 1904

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Description

The sketch on the verso of a walking woman is vertically oriented and is slightly drawn.

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

12.7 x 18.3 cm (5 x 7 3/16 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

Landscape with Travellers; verso: River Landscape

Alessio de Marchis, 18th century

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

18th centuryItalian

Drawings

Standing Cloaked Figure; verso: Study of a Youth

Baldassare Franceschini, called Volterrano, 17th century

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk

17th centuryItalian

Drawings

Ye Arte Museum, from "Manners and Customs of Ye Bostonians"

Francis Gilbert Attwood, 19th century

Black ink over graphite on off-white card

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Competition Entry for Ukrainian State Theater, Kharkov, 1930-1931: South elevation, 1:500

Walter Gropius, 1930-1931

Ink and applied label on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Forest Interior

Paul Cézanne, c. 1890

Transparent watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Portrait of Bernardus Somer(?)

Jan de Bisschop, 17th century

Brown wash, white opaque watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink

17th centuryDutch

Drawings

Three Sketches of a Dog

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Brown ink on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (marker tests on back endpaper, right page)

Otto Piene, 2001-2003

Colored and metallic marker, black pen, and sticker on paper

Drawings

Untitled [Head of Woman]

Lyonel Feininger, 8/1908

Ink with gray and blue crayon on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled [Two Women]; verso: Untitled [Women]

Lyonel Feininger, 5/1907

Graphite on paper envelope

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Mountain Scene

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Tree; verso: Study of Sheep and Family Group

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on tan wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican