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| Summary: | This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent's art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, who married the only son of André Michel, the foremost art historian of his day. Robert was a promising historian as well, until the Great War claimed him in 1914. His widow Rose-Marie served as a nurse for blinded French soldiers until she too was killed in 1918. Sargent expressed his grief on canvas, painting ruined French churches and, in Gassed, blinded soldiers; he made h.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 305 pages, [8] pages of plates ) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9781442230514
1442230517
1442269987
9781442269989 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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