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Musée d'Orsay Paris - Sargent Exhibition

I took a day to visit the John Singer Sargent Exhibition in Paris at Musée d'Orsay. I'm lucky it's only a 4 hour train ride from where I live in Germany. The Musée d'Orsay is also famous for it's impressionist collection (Degas, Renoir, etc), but also got some amazing Bougereaus, Ingres, and some cool works of the students of Ingres I didn't know (Amaury Duval).

This is the third museum visit for me in the last 12 months or so (National Gallery London, Rijks Museum Amsterdam), and I must say it's crazy how much I learn each time. The energy, mark making, the detail, it's just so much easier to see in the real painting.

The first two were studies from Sargent at school. The charcoal one he did as a student. I added a few close ups.

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