Study for Seated Figures for "El Jaleo"

Artists

Description

The Harvard Art Museum owns a number of drawings by Sargent relating to this theme, including 1937.8.2, 1937.8.12 (pen and wash sketches of dancer with seated figures), and 1937.8.22, a version of the figure at center of this composition. The finished painting is at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Dimensions

65.4 x 81.3 cm (25 3/4 x 32 in.) framed: 80.3 x 96.5 x 7.6 cm (31 5/8 x 38 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Jules François Gabriel Renaudot, Paris; to his wife, Mme. Renaudot (at his death?); her sale, Christie's, London, June 24, 1927, lot 82; purchased by David Croal Thomson, London; Scott and Fowles, New York; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1932 [Winthrop paid $3500]; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.