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The drawing shows a landscape with terraced fields, trees, shrubs, and hills. The viewpoint is slightly elevated, allowing for a clear view. The horizon is high in the picture. The pencil strokes are soft, creating a detailed texture. The color palette is monochromatic with black, gray, and beige tones.
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The drawing shows a landscape with terraced fields, trees, shrubs, and hills. The viewpoint is slightly elevated, allowing for a clear view. The horizon is high in the picture. The pencil strokes are soft, creating a detailed texture. The color palette is monochromatic with black, gray, and beige tones.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Bellosguardo, Florence

John Singer Sargent

Date
1870-1872
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 9.53 × 14.61 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2015.19.682
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • Landscape
  • Florence
  • landscape
Provenance

Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Sargent Ormond (sisters of the artist), Surrey, England; National Gallery (now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, DC, 1929, left in storage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower right in graphite: Belloguardo; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: J.S.290b

NGA object ID 184298. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.