Camouflaged Field in France

Artist:: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)

Date:: 1918

Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper

Dimensions:: 13 5/16 x 20 15/16 in. (33.8 x 53.2 cm)

Classification:: Drawings

Credit Line:: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950

Accession Number:: 50.130.52

Not on view

Inscription: [on verso at upper left]: Camouflaged field / in France 1917; [at upper center]: 9 /3 [encircled]; [at center]: H/[21?]; [at lower left]: W W

For exhibition history through 2000, see Stephanie L. Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, New York, 2000.

Essays
America Comes of Age: 1876–1900
American Impressionism
Americans in Paris, 1860–1900
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Nineteenth–Century American Drawings

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent

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Jungfrau from above Mürren (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook)

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From Faulhorn (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook)

Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London) Date: September 3, 1870 Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper Accession: 50.130.146tt recto On view in:Not on view

Matterhorn from Zmutt Glacier, Zermatt, recto (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook)

Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London) Date: 1870 Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper Accession: 50.130.146kk On view in:Not on view