This may be Sargent's sister Violet
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A Portrait of Violet 1889 |
From: Harvard
Contained in a Sketchbook with 16 numbered pages.
The sketchbook contains portraits of several women, including: Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Guerin (Madame Paul Helleu). The sketchbook also contains studies of animals: gorillas, cats, and birds.
The Sketchbook measures 152 x 242 mm., individual sheets are approx. 150 x 238 mm.
The pages are numbered in brown ink in the top right hand corner. Many pages have been removed from the sketchbook and the page numbering apparently occurred after their removal.
(Sargent at Harvard)
Dated by Natasha's guess
Goley, Mary Ann, The Paul Magriel Collection: American Drawings 1800-1965, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC, 1981, p. 14, note 5