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The Sphinx and the Chimaera
John Singer Sargent
Oil on canvas
302.58 x 234.31 cm (119 1/8 x 92 1/4 inches)
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (21.10515)
Commissioned by the MFA in 1916 for $40,018 (for 21.10500-21.10515), installed in the Rotunda in 1921.