John Singer Sargent, How they met themselves
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John Singer Sargent RA (American, 1856-1925)
How they met themselves
possibly a posthumous cast
bronze with a light green patina, including base
25 x 20cm (9 13/16 x 7 7/8in).
Sold for £7,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The present lot was inspired by a watercolour of the same title by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It explores the theme of two medieval lovers who meet their doppelgängers in a dark wood. Sargent uses exactly the same composition as the heavily worked and pigment saturated watercolour, which was so typical of Rossetti's technique in the early 1860s.

Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings

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