Male Torso with Pole

1890-1900 · Drawing

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Not on view at present

Where is “Male Torso with Pole” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 2014.136.191

What it shows

Figures Torso Man

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Charcoal Impressionism 19th century American

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — Museum open access

In the life of John Singer Sargent

The whole life

1887–1888
His first solo exhibition in Boston
In Boston Sargent is honoured with his first solo exhibition, which presents 22 of his paintings; there he becomes friends with the painter Dennis Miller Bunker.
1887–1888
His first professional trip to New York and Boston
His first trip to New York and Boston as a professional artist produces over twenty important commissions, among them portraits of the Boston art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner and of Mrs. Adrian Iselin, wife of a New York businessman.
c. 1890
Elected to the Royal Academy
Sargent is elected an associate of the Royal Academy and is made a full member three years later.
1893
Nine portraits at the Chicago World's Fair
In 1893 Sargent exhibits nine of his portraits in the Palace of Fine Arts at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
1895–1919
The “Triumph of Religion” murals for the Boston Public Library
From 1895 through 1919, for almost thirty years, Sargent works on his largest-scale work, the mural decorations “Triumph of Religion” for the Boston Public Library, showing religion's progress from pagan superstition to the ascension of Christianity; he never completes the final mural of the cycle.
1898
Asher Wertheimer commissions a dozen family portraits
In 1898 Asher Wertheimer, a wealthy Jewish art dealer living in London, commissions from Sargent a series of a dozen portraits of his family, the artist's largest commission from a single patron; most of them, bequeathed to the National Gallery, are now on display at Tate Britain.