Thursday, June 7, 2012

MFA - Part 2

Here are some cool things we saw at our second visit to the Museum of Fine Arts.  And this time we even roped Loren into coming with us!

Sophie and I with the famous portrait of Paul Revere


John Adams - Gilbert Stuart, 1823.  This was painted when Adams was almost 90!
A picture of a little girl in front of a picture of a little girl...  Helen Sears - John Singer Sargent, 1895.  Helen was six when this portrait was painted.
George Washington - Gilbert Stuart, 1796.  This is the portrait that is used on the dollar bill.  Now do you see why Sophie and I took a picture of his tombstone?
Caresse Maternelle - Mary Stevenson Cassatt, about 1902.  I think this portrait is so sweet and tender.
And the famous Sargent painting:  The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit - John Singer Sargent, 1882.  Sargent painted this when he was only 26, wow.  The placard called his composition, "daringly empty."

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