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Source Description
In 1919, Sargent exhibited a large painting at the Royal Academy of Art in London called Gassed. The Dressing Station at Le Bac and on the Doullers-Arras Road. The British War Memorial Committee had commissioned the work from him as a way of honoring the sacrifices of World War I. The subject was based on a scene the artist actually witnessed during his visit to battlefields in France in 1918. This drawing is a study for one of the soldiers in the painting, which now hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London.
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159987
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Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)
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drawing
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159987
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drawing
title
Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)
description
In 1919, Sargent exhibited a large painting at the Royal Academy of Art in London called Gassed. The Dressing Station at Le Bac and on the Doullers-Arras Road. The British War Memorial Committee had commissioned the work from him as a way of honoring the sacrifices of World War I. The subject was based on a scene the artist actually witnessed during his visit to battlefields in France in 1918. This drawing is a study for one of the soldiers in the painting, which now hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London.
date
1918–19
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CC0
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en
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Q79980460
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2559
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Drawing
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1
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Sheet: 48.1 x 62.6 cm (18 15/16 x 24 5/8 in.); Overall: 48.1 x 62.5 cm (18 15/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
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America
accession
1997.256
Source extras
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charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure)
tombstone
Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso), 1918–19. John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925). Charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure); sheet: 48.1 x 62.6 cm (18 15/16 x 24 5/8 in.); overall: 48.1 x 62.5 cm (18 15/16 x 24 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Jane Iglauer Fallon in memory of Harold Fallon, 1997.256
collection
DR - American 19th Century
inscriptions
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recto: signed?, lower left, in graphite: JS.312.
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Gift of Jane Iglauer Fallon in memory of Harold Fallon
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2026-05-29 08:18:05.054000
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159987
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Drawings
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DR - American 19th Century
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charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure)
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male
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