Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso) (1918–19): Art, History and Details

Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso) (1918–19) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)
• Date: 1918–19
• Creator attribution: John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1997.256

Collection credit

Gift of Jane Iglauer Fallon in memory of Harold Fallon

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