JOHN SINGER SARGENT
1882

MUSEUM OF FINE ART BOSTON
This historical photo portrait was commissioned for a client who had always loved this painting by John Singer Sargent of the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, hanging in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The client’s wife organized to have their two daughters dressed in costumes and posed in decors that reproduced the painting, with the trick that the two daughters were photographed twice, in different costumes, and superimposed in the painting. It was given to a delighted client as a surprise birthday gift. THE DAUGHTERS OF
MISTER X
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