DrawingsAmerican19th century

Windmill at Sanssouci; verso: Landscape

1872

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Description

Verso is horizontally oriented and drawn upside down from rest of book.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper; verso: watercolor over graphite

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

15.6 x 11.3 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/16 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.

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