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Mercury, after the Antique by John Singer Sargent — VisualArtsDB

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Mercury, after the Antique

Mercury, after the Antique

Mercury, after the Antique

John Singer Sargent

1869

Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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A profile head has been drawn and then erased from the recto.

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