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Sketch for Satyr and Maenad - Outline Study - (MFA Rotunda)

(American, 1856–1925)
1917–21
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil and charcoal on paper
DimensionsSheet: 24.8 x 21.5 cm (9 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit LineThe Sargent Collection—Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent
Accession number28.742
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsIn graphite l.l.: B.18.77, B.18.77; l.r.: 10.6.1 (Fox number); u.c.: 1/2 scale, (illegible); l.c.: "apex of (illegible), 1/2 (illegible)
Provenance1925, upon the artist's death, by inheritance to his sisters, Emily Sargent (b. 1857 - d. 1936) and Violet Sargent Ormond (b. 1870 - d. 1955); 1928, gift of Emily Sargent and Violet Ormond to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1928)