Charcoal and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches (47 x 61.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite lower left: "J.S. 310"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2009.9.26
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
military uniform | gas | military art | battlefield | figure study | soldiers | world war | World War, 1914-1918 | death | war
Associated Places:
France
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26)
Gallery Label:
The American artist John Singer Sargent was well over sixty when he went to France in 1918. He made a series of drawings at a casualty clearing station, where scores of men were being treated from the effects of mustard gas. These studies would no doubt have provided a resource for his famed monumental painting from 1919, Gassed, which depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)