# @ngadc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-03-13T21:52:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Gallery of Art (@ngadc) — https://gondola.cc/ngadc

## Caption

If you didn't have to worry about money or approval, how would you spend your days? American painter John Singer Sargent found his answer in his 50s.
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🖼 John Singer Sargent, "Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)," 1883–84, oil on canvas, 82 × 43 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 

🖼 "John Singer Sargent in his studio, with Portrait of Madame X," 1885, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art 

🖼 John Singer Sargent, "Gondola Moorings on the Grand Canal," 1904/1907, watercolor over graphite on thick wove paper, 16 × 17 in., Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

🖼 John Singer Sargent, “Simplon Pass,” 1911, oil on canvas, 28 × 36 in., Corcoran Collection

🖼 John Singer Sargent, “Nonchaloir (Repose),” 1911, oil on canvas, 25 × 30 in., Gift of Curt H. Reisinger

#art #history #sargent #painting #artist #inspiration #explore #lifeat50

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inspiration, history, art, lifeat50, sargent, painting, explore, artist

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