Miss Susan Strong

before 1906

John Singer Sargent American, 1856-1925

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About the Artwork

American soprano Susan Strong (1870 ‒ 1946) made her debut in 1895 at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London, singing the role of Sieglinde in Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) by the German composer Richard Wagner. She continued her career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as in Vienna and Naples.
An accomplished pianist and Wagner enthusiast, John Singer Sargent created large-scale evocative charcoal portraits, which usually took two or three hours to finish. The inscription in the top left, “to Miss Susan Strong | John S. Sargent,” records the gift of this portrait from one American artist to another.

Title Miss Susan Strong

Artwork Date before 1906

Artist John Singer Sargent

Life Dates 1856-1925

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Charcoal on cream laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 23 7/8 × 17 3/4 inches (60.6 × 45.1 cm) Framed: 30 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 1 inches (76.8 × 61.6 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. Stevenson Scott

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 51.119

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Signed Signed, upper left, below inscription: John S. Sargent

Inscriptions Inscribed, upper left: to Miss Susan Strong

Provenance

Mrs. Stevenson Scott;
1951-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Gilder, Jeannette Leonard and Joseph Benson Gilder. The Critic, vol. 48. (1906): https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqrPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed on May 13, 2019. pp. 12-13.

The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, vol. 55 (1906): https://books.google.com/books?id=ioE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed on May 13, 2019. p. 428.

Ormond, Richard. John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal. Exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and Smithsonian Institution. New York and Washington D.C., 2019.pp. 104-105, (ill.) cat. 18.

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