The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto)
1918–19
(American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
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.)
Location: Not on view
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.- Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New YorkMrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland[Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York]Mrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.256.a