Study for "The Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight"; verso: studies for "Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver"

ca. 1876-1878

Graphite on ivory paper, formerly mounted on a page of James Carroll Beckwith Album 3

Sheet: 7 13/16 x 12 3/16 in. (19.8 x 31 cm)

Gift of the National Academy of Design

1935.85.3.153

InscribedInscribed by Beckwith at lower left in graphite: "Sketch by J. S. Sargent of picture of the Luxembourg Gardens"; verso inscribed by Beckwith at lower left in graphite: "Sketches by John Sargent -- "

ProvenanceJames Carroll Beckwith; The National Academy of Design, New York

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

DescriptionSketch from a bound album with 155 tipped in sketches by Beckwith. Inscribed at lower left in graphite: Sketch by J. S. Sargent of picture of the Luxembourg Gardens; verso inscribed at lower left: "Sketches by John Sargent -" Formerly mounted in album of sketches by Beckwith.Published ReferencesRoberta J.M. Olson, "John Singer Sargent and James Carroll Beckwith, Two Americans in Paris: A Trove of Their Unpublished Drawings," Master Drawings 43, no. 4 (Winter, 2005), app. no. 15, figs. 18, 20; 426, 428-31, 436.

Roberta J.M. Olson, Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society (London: D Giles Limited, 2008), cat. no. 125, 370.