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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Chess Piece with Elephant ca. 1085-1100 ivory Musée du Louvre |
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| Hubert Robert Ponte Salario, Rome ca. 1775 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Roman Empire Medusa AD 115-150 stone mosaic floor (excavated in Rome in 1911) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Charles Ricketts Flight of Cupid ca. 1901 ink and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor St Jerome removing Thorn from Lion's paw 15th century ivory Musée du Louvre |
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| Hubert Robert Grand Galerie of the Louvre in Ruins 1796 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Roman Empire Combat between Dares and Entellus AD 175-200 stone and glass mosaic floor (excavated in France ca. 1900) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Charles Ricketts Woman washing her Hair ca. 1889 drawing (unrealized print study for The Dial) British Museum |
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| Anonymous Florentine Sculptor Youth in Classical Garb ca. 1535-40 ivory Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Hubert Robert Proposed Renovations to the Grand Galerie of the Louvre 1796 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Roman Empire Orpheus and Animals AD 150-200 stone and glass mosaic floor (excavated in France in 1912) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Charles Ricketts A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde ca. 1889 drawing (print study for book illustration) British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Portrait of Sir Thomas Robinson in Classical Garb 1730 ivory relief, carved in Rome Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Hubert Robert View of Villa Medici, Rome ca. 1800 watercolor on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Roman Empire Medusa AD 115-150 central motif of stone mosaic floor Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Charles Ricketts Costume Design for Siegfried (opera by Richard Wagner) ca. 1925-30 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor after Andrea Mantegna Roman Triumph ca. 1475-1500 ivory relief fragment (Napoleonic loot seized in Germany) Musée du Louvre |
Monet later recalled that Sargent, asking him for a tube of black paint one day at Giverny, had been astonished to learn that his host had none: "Then I can't paint," he cried, and added, "How do you do it?"
– Jean Strouse, from Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)