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Whispers (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and a Friend)

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John Singer Sargent
Sargent and Paris traces the rapid rise of American painter John Singer Sargent, from his arrival in Paris as an 18-year-old art student through his scandalous success at the Paris Salon in the mid-1880s.
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Whispers (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and a Friend), ca. 1883–84. John Singer Sargent. Charcoal and graphite on off-white laid paper. Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950.
A prolific and successful painter in oil and watercolor, Sargent seems to have sketched almost incessantly. He made rapid studies, such as this one, in preparation for his paintings or simply as impressions of his surroundings. Sargent captures a candid moment between Virginie Gautreau (1859–1915), at left, and an unidentified companion. He eschews detailed anatomical study in order to record their fleeting poses and gestures.

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