Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)
- Medium
- 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.)
- Genre
- drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
America
About
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.
