Fine Art

Study for "Prometheus," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — History & Facts

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (assumed to be a Gift of Emily Sargent and Violet Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent)

More Artworks by John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Mademoiselle Suzanne Poirson by John Singer Sargent.

Mademoiselle Suzanne Poirson

John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer by John Singer Sargent.

Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer

John Singer Sargent

Two young girls in white dresses light paper lanterns among tall lilies and pink roses in a garden at dusk.

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

John Singer Sargent

A woman in a black evening dress stands in profile beside a polished wooden table against a warm brown background.

Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)

John Singer Sargent

A woman in a white gown with a pale lavender sash sits in an 18th-century French Bergère chair against a blue wall with gold and cream motifs.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

John Singer Sargent

A woman holding a parasol in a sunlit landscape.

Woman With Parasol

John Singer Sargent

A woman wrapped in flowing white fabric sits with only her face exposed, against a background with a red-striped cushion and soft washes of color.

Mrs. Gardner in White

John Singer Sargent

A portrait of Mrs. William George Raphael by John Singer Sargent.

Mrs. William George Raphael

John Singer Sargent

A white-haired man in a dark suit sits with his left elbow on a round wooden table and his head resting on his hand, against a green curtain background.

Henry G. Marquand

John Singer Sargent

A woman in a black dress sits in profile on a turquoise-blue settee with her left arm resting on its curved wooden back against a blue and grey background.

Madame Gautreau (Madame X)

John Singer Sargent

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More Mythology Art

A depiction of Apollo reaching for Daphne, who is transforming into a laurel tree.

Apollo and Daphne

Peter Paul Rubens

A group of figures including a twisting woman in white and reddish-brown drapery, a crowned man, and others stand closely on rocky ground beneath a blue sky.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens' 'Hippomenes and Atalanta' captures a moment of tension in a mythological race.

Hippomenes and Atalanta

Peter Paul Rubens

A nearly nude woman chained to a rocky outcrop looks down anxiously as a sea monster rises below and an armored man swoops in with sword and shield.

Perseus and Andromeda

Peter Paul Rubens

Meleager and Atalanta confront the Calydonian Boar in a dynamic scene by Peter Paul Rubens.

Meleager and Atalanta and the Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

Peter Paul Rubens

Albrecht Dürer's 'St. George and the Dragon' depicts the legendary battle between the saint and the dragon.

St. George and the dragon.

Albrecht Dürer

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