Phaethon

John Singer Sargent

1922-25

Oil on canvas

Diameter 120 inches

Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (25.646)

Commissioned by the MFA in 1916 for $40,000 (for 25.636-25.651), installed ceiling side aisle, Huntington Avenue stairway, 1925.

The MFA has a pencil studies for the painting (29.140)