Study for Seated Figures for "El Jaleo"

John Singer Sargent

c. 1882

Oil on canvas

Fogg Museum

A study of figures in motion, with a woman in a red top and white skirt on the left, and two figures in dark clothing in the center and right. The figure on the right is seated. A study of figures in motion, with a woman in a red top and white skirt on the left, and two figures in dark clothing in the center and right. The figure on the right is seated. The Harvard Art Museum owns a number of drawings by Sargent relating to this theme, including 1937.8.2, 1937.8.12 (pen and wash sketches of dancer with seated figures), and 1937.8.22, a version of the figure at center of this composition. The finished painting is at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop