John Singer Sargent's The Sphinx and Chimaera
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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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The Sphinx and Chimaera
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1921
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rotunda mural
Oil on canvas
302.6 x 234.3 cm (119 1/8 x 92 1/4 in.)
Jpg: Lee Sanstead

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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.


 


Studies

Sketch for the Sphinx and the Chimaera

Sketch for the Sphinx and the Chimaera - Chimaera

Sketch for Sphinx and Chimaera - Chimaera

Sketch for the Sphinx and Chimera - (MFA Rotunda)

Sketch for Sphinx and Chimaera

 

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