Object details
Object number
S.G.Sar.4.2.4.13
Creator(s)
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Title
Study for El Jaleo: Seated Musicians' Faces
Date
1881
Medium
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions
23.7 x 33 cm (9 5/16 x 13 in.)
Provenance
Gift from John Singer Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner in a sketchbook containing 18 sheets with 22 drawings in 1919.
Commentary
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Bibliography
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 46, no. 22.
Richard Ormond. "Sargent's El Jaleo." Fenway Court (1970), pp. 2-18.
Mary Crawford Volk. John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1992), pp. 176-184, no. 36.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 159.
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray. John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1871–1882. Complete Paintings Volume IV. (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 225-275, fig. 155.
Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond. Sargent & Spain. Exh. cat. (Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 2022; Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2023), pp. 72, no. 25.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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