Study of a Young Man, Seen from the Back

John Singer Sargent

1895 · Lithographic crayon on transfer paper · Drawings and Prints

As part of a renewed interest in lithography around 1895, the printer Frederick Goulding experimented with new transfer methods that freed artists from the need to work directly on unwieldy printing stones. Sargent made this drawing on laid paper, and a photo-chemical process was then used to transfer the image to a stone, possibly by means of an intermediate negative. The Museum possesses two copies of the resulting lithograph (50.558.1, .2) and when those prints are compared to the present work, it becomes evident that the printer made numerous small corrections in the stone, removing stray lines near the left cheek and elsewhere around the form, and reducing the texture in light open areas.

Artist

John Singer Sargent

Date

1895

Medium

Lithographic crayon on transfer paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950