There's a Greatness of Dash, a piece you can look at and say "ah, I could have done a credible job of the subject--but not in a single damn brush stroke". Sargent, of course.

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John Singer Sargent, Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, ca. 1907 https://t.co/qbY2ou49I0

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John Singer Sargent, Mountain Landscape, Längenfeld, Oetzthal, Jul 7 1871 https://t.co/Q4SqXmoBsn

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John Singer Sargent, Ortler Spitz from Summit of Stelvio Pass (from Switzerland 1869 Sketchbook), September 25, 1869 https://t.co/SnXRgWu5Bc

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John Singer Sargent, Stream and Rocks, ca. 1901–8 https://t.co/x3uzxhCfZa

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John Singer Sargent, Frau von Allmen and an Unidentified Man in an Interior, verso (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook), 1870 https://t.co/jBRrxW6kyN

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John Singer Sargent, Reclining Male Nude, Draped, c. 1890 - 1915 https://t.co/mRAJckRLm6

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John Singer Sargent, Kneeling Male Nude with Drapery, c. 1890 - 1915 https://t.co/LHMHW47JpQ

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John Singer Sargent, Artist in the Simplon, c. 1909-1911 https://t.co/eSjTFYMlhK

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John Singer Sargent, Study for "Judgment of Paris," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916 - 1922 https://t.co/gxtMhLh3es

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John Singer Sargent, Ancient Greek Sculpture, Glyptothek, Munich (from Switzerland 1869 Sketchbook), June 1869 https://t.co/H5Rlqf6fHJ

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John Singer Sargent, Holy Family and a Monk (from Scrapbook), early 1870s https://t.co/SPL9vDGeKy

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John Singer Sargent, Two Soldiers at Arras, 1918 https://t.co/O9WhZND5sw

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John Singer Sargent, Loggia, Villa Giulia, Rome, ca. 1907 https://t.co/cP7siBr9OM

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