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An Artist at His Easel, 1914. Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper.
Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper · 40 × 53.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- An Artist at His Easel
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent American, 1856-1925
- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- Watercolor over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 40 × 53.4 cm (15 3/4 × 21 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1856–1925
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.