Art, literature & history
Head of a Boy; and the Entrance to a Shack
1871
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image (irregular): 19.69 × 29.21 cm (7 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.89 × 39.37 cm (11 3/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.657
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singer Sargent. Head of a Boy; and the Entrance to a Shack. John Singer Sargent; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent,_Head_of_a_Boy;_and_the_Entrance_to_a_Shack,_1871,_NGA_197320.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Boy; and the Entrance to a Shack — John Singer Sargent. 1871.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image (irregular): 19.69 × 29.21 cm (7 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.89 × 39.37 cm (11 3/8 × 15 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.657. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.