Object details
Accession number
1.2.r.26
Creators
Full title
Miss Alick Schepeler
Creation Date
about 1907
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the collector Ms. Charles Hunter (Mary E. Smyth, 1856-1933), Epping, England for £75 on about 9 July 1920, through the artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and the auction house Christie, Manson & Woods.
Marks
Inscribed in graphite (recto, right side): JohnInscribed in graphite (recto, bottom center): 83x-
Dimensions
21.8 x 17.8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in.)
Display Media
Graphite on wove paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
"The Case for Modern Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (1907), p. 12. (as compared to a drawing now in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, accession no. PD 155-1961)
Charles Merrill Mount. John Singer Sarger: A Biography (New York, 1955), pp. 375-76.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), pp. 62-63, no. 32.
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