John Singer Sargent's Prometheus
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The Sphinx and Chimaera Prometheus Ganymede and the Eagle Eros and Psyche Aphrodite and Eros Achilles and Chiron Fame
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  Sketches for Prometheus

Sketch for Prometheus (Rotunda)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Prometheus
John Singer Sargent -- American painter
1921
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Oil on canvas
Rotunda mural
94.6 x107.3 cm (37 1/4 x42 1/4 in.)
Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and 1925
Picture Fund 21.10511
Jpg: Lee Sanstead

 






Rotunda Dome Decorations
Looking straight up 


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Notes:
Special thanks to Lee Sandstead of New York, for being a friend of the JSS Gallery, for taking this picture on his trip and sharing this with us.
     
 
 
 

By:  Natasha Wallace
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Created 1/18/2005