John Singer Sargent
American, 1856–1925
Sketch after "Fumée d'ambre-gris"
1880
| Medium | pen and black ink on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in. (28.8 x 19.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1737 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
John Singer Sargent, Sketch after "Fumée d'ambre-gris", 1880, pen and black ink on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1737
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
Simpson, Marc. "Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of Sargent." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 5547.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Mirseyedi, Sarah. The Remedy of Color for the Poison of Orientalism?: A Discursive Investigation into Sargent's Fumée d'ambre gris. Course paper, Art History 555: John Singer Sargent, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2011.
Provenance
Scott and Fowles (to E. S. Kerrigan, according to Kerrigan sale catalogue); Esther S. Kerrigan (sale New York, Parke-Bernet, January 8, 1942, no. 30; bought by Robert Sterling Clark via Scott and Fowles, 1942).
