# @ngadc on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DR3NLRqDXXX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37628440-ngadc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-05T01:02:54.000+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 time? 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, “Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman),” 1893, oil on canvas, 49 3⁄8 x 40 1⁄2 in. (125.4 x 102.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman

🖼 John Singer Sargent, “Sierra Nevada,” 1912, oil on canvas, National Museum of Cardiff, Wales

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