Sketchbook: Soldiers

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with red-cloth-covered cardboard covers. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sketchbook is incomplete, with fifteen pages remaining. Eighteen drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Some pages have been removed, including the page before page one and possibly three pages after page nine. Contents: The sketchbook dates from Sargent's trip to the Western Front in 1918, and contains studies of soldiers. Also, sketches for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, murals, including "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Apollo and Daphne" (unused); staircase in Lord Leconfield's house, Chesterfield Gardens, London; sconce, clasped hands.

Dimensions

25.6 x 35.8 x 1 cm (10 1/16 x 14 1/8 x 3/8 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.