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Sargent’s Hands

On a recent visit to the Met, I was absorbed by John Singer Sargent’s delicate, assured brushwork.

Photographs taken on my iPhone.

Edith Minturn Stokes’s ringed hand against her white skirt — Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1897

Closer view of Edith Minturn Stokes’s hand and skirt — Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1897

Mrs. Hugh Hammersley’s hand with a blue ring beside her pink dress — Mrs. Hugh Hammersley, 1892

Henry G. Marquand’s hand emerging from his dark sleeve — Henry G. Marquand, 1897

Closer view of the brushwork in Henry G. Marquand’s hand — Henry G. Marquand, 1897

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