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Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)

1918–19

John Singer Sargent

(American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
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Culture
America
Medium
charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure)
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jane Iglauer Fallon in memory of Harold Fallon 1997.256
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Location
Not on view
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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.
Two side-by-side drawings on tan paper show front and back views of a sheet. On our left, a horizontal composition features four charcoal and graphite studies of a soldier drinking from a cup. A central figure leans back, while fainter sketches appear around him. On our right, a male nude reclines on his side, propped on an elbow with his arm extended toward the bottom left. Visible, gestural strokes define the forms.

Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)

1918–19

John Singer Sargent

(American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
America

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