Sketchbook ("Rouen/ Dijon/ Lyons"): Portrait Studies

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers, pencil sleeve; and the remains of cloth ties. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with thirty-one pages remaining, and it contains 18 drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Contents: Studies of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain (1902, National Gallery of Art, Washington) and Mrs. Leopold Hirsch (1902, private collection); studies for the portrait of the Marlborough family (1905, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire) and a sketch after Reynold’s portrait of the Marlborough family (1777-78, Blenheim Palace); sketches for the Handmaiden of the Lord panel at the Boston Public Library and sketches of a hand holding a bowl that may relate to the Boston Public Library project; profile studies and a sketch of a standing woman. On the first page, Sargent has listed his expenses (?) under various clients' names from Rouen, Dijon, Lyon, Avignon, and Toulouse.

Dimensions

11.6 x 18.5 x 1.1 cm (4 9/16 x 7 5/16 x 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.