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Conservation Status: After Treatment
The Sphinx and the Chimaera
Conservation Status: After Treatment

The Sphinx and the Chimaera

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
1921
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions302.58 x 234.31 cm (119 1/8 x 92 1/4 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund
Accession number21.10515
On View
On view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left center: J S S/©ProvenanceThe artist; commissioned by the MFA in 1916 for $40,018 (for 21.10500-21.10515), installed in the Rotunda in 1921.
An Artist in His Studio
John Singer Sargent
about 1904
John Singer Sargent
1918
Conservation Status: After Treatment; Group shot: 21.10508, 21.10512, 21.10509
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment; Group shot: 21.10509, 21.10513, 21.10510
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment; Group shot: 21.10509, 21.10513, 21.10510
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment, Oculus; Group shot: 21.10508-14
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment; Group shot: 21.10508, 21.10512, 21.10509
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment, Oculus; Group shot: 21.10508-14
John Singer Sargent
1921
Conservation Status: After Treatment
John Singer Sargent
1879
The Master and His Pupils
John Singer Sargent
1914