  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
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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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 &amp; 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
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
