DrawingsAmerican19th century

Woman with Covered Head

1879-1880

Artists

John Singer SargentArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 24.8 x 34 cm (9 3/4 x 13 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.

Related Artworks

Drawings

The Pot Hole, East Lebanon, New Hampshire

William Rimmer, 1869

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Bird, after an Egyptian Wall Painting at Thebes

Charles Herbert Moore, c. 1876-1878

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on heavy cream wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Seated Male Nude Turned Three-Quarters Right

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on cream wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sketches of Girls and a Man (Dr. Soft)

William Valentine Schevill, 1893

Graphite on paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Children in a Field

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Female Head in Profile: Study of Ann Channing Allston, for "The Valentine"

Washington Allston, c. 1812-1815

Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Studies for Second Angel from Left, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916

Charcoal on blue laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Female Nude with Draperies

Gaston Lachaise, 19th-20th century

Graphite on tan wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ye S-t-rd-y M-rn-ng Clubbe (A Vision), from "Manners and Customs of Ye Bostonians"

Francis Gilbert Attwood, 19th century

Brown ink over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Blank page; verso: Perspective Study of Wall with Detached Columns on Pedestals

John Singer Sargent, c. 1885

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Decorative Design

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite and charcoal on off-white wove graph paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sunny Morning, Moret

Dodge Macknight, 1888?

Watercolor on heavy off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican