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WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (United States 1849-1916)
"Spring flowers peonies" 1889
Pastel on paper
“I’m everyone’s darling: the blackbird and starling
Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs;
For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy-down-dilly,
Have heard through the country the call to arouse.”
'Flower fairies of the spring: - Poetry & Artwork by Cicely Mary Barker.
John Singer Sargent (American painter) 1856 - 1925
Man Reading, ca. 1905
watercolour over graphite on paper
34.9 x 53.5 cm. (13.74 x 21.06 in.)