Spanish male dancer before nine seated figures

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1879

Height:

13.3 cm  (5 1/4 in.)

Width:

20.7 cm  (8 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

brown ink and brown wash on off-white wove paper

Description

Male dancer; behind him are two seated men, one playing a guitar, the other playing what appears to be a balalaika; also seated behind the dancer are seven females, some possibly playing percussion instruments

Iconclass

48C8421
male dancer

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Balalaika [3318]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

The Harvard Art Museum owns a number of drawings by Sargent relating to this theme, including 1937.8.2, 1937.8.12 (pen and wash sketches of dancer with seated figures), and 1937.8.22, a version of the figure at the left of this composition. The finished painting (El Jaleo) is at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (RIdIM item 5576).

RIdIM record id

5606