Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Woman Carrying Basket, for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale"
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Drawings
To the artist's sisters Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent at his death 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum 1931.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother John Singer Sargent
Related Results
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
painting (tempera?): ["Fruit and Leaves in a Basket"]
painting (tempera?): ["Fruit and Leaves in a Basket"]
Gouache mixed with sand on board in a frame designed by artist. A wicker basket centre, leaves spreading out to bottom right and top left corners of the picture, apple on surface b...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
The scene on the front of the pelike (jar) comprises five figures: a couple consisting of a woman and a young man, flanked by a boy and second woman, respectively. A small Eros flu...
painting (oil): ["A Peasant Carrying a Pole"]
painting (oil): ["A Peasant Carrying a Pole"]
In the foreground is a man carrying a long pole over his left shoulder. He wears a blue hat and brown coat and black trousers with gaiters. His mouth is open as if he was calling o...
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Both sides of this vase depict an episode from the story of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis (in modern-day Georgia). When the Greek hero Jason came with the Argonaut...
Nolan Amphora (storage jar): Seated Woman and Man with Staff; Draped Man with Staff
Nolan Amphora (storage jar): Seated Woman and Man with Staff; Draped Man with Staff
This Nolan-type amphora is decorated with the simple composition and limited ornamentation characteristic of this vessel shape (1). On side A, a woman sits in a high backed chair h...