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John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children, 1897
“Even Mr. Sargen’t skill had not succeeded in making attractive these over-civilized Orientals (Jews).” - reviewer for Spectator
“The children are Jewish to a quaint orientalism, faces to peep out of the lattice or the curtains of closed harems or palanquin.” - Henry James
I’ll let you make your own judgments on these rather tantalizing xenophobic commentaries on this beautiful painting.

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