From: Harvard

Clear wax used as a resist to produce white highlights.

The subject of this watercolor has been identified by Mary Crawford Volk (unpublished letter in the drawing department's curatorial files,16 July 1990) as a relief panel in the 16th-century "retablo" of the Church of Los Jer—nimos in Granada. According to the diary entry of a fellow traveler, Sargent was in the church in 1895, but also traveled to Granada in 1903 and 1912.

(Harvard)

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Bibliography

John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated