DrawingsAmerican19th century

Study for the Prophet Obadiah, Boston Public Library; verso: blank page

1890-1895

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Charcoal on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

36.7 x 25.3 cm (14 7/16 x 9 15/16 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

Seated Woman, Bali

Maurice Sterne, 19th-20th century

Oil on very thin, fibrous paper, set down on heavier paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape, Amalfi, Italy

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on brown wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Mountain

Washington Allston, 1804

Graphite on ivory wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Album of Ornamental Detail: Drawings, Stencils and Photographs

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Album with black cloth-covered cardboard covers

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Standing Male Nude with Raised Right Arm Seen from Behind

John Singer Sargent, c. 1890 - 1915

Charcoal on cream laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape with Church

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Port of Civitavecchia

Ephraim Whitman Gurney, 19th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Rocks, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1852

Graphite on slightly darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape near Assouan, Egypt

Denman Waldo Ross, 1896

Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Standing Man; Male Head

Sanford Robinson Gifford, c. 1845-1847

Black pencil on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study of an Architectural Ornament

Oscar Fehrer, 1886

Black and white chalk on tan wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study of Two Opera Singers; verso: Sketch of a Baldacchino

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican