Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011685Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto)
Also known as: Study for Gassed
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
signed?, lower left, in graphite: JS.312.
Provenance
Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York Mrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland [Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York] Mrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
- Date
- 1918–19
- Medium
- charcoal (stumped in places) (left figures) and graphite (right figure); squared in graphite (right figure)
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Jane Iglauer Fallon in memory of Harold Fallon
- Accession no.
- 1997.256.a
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