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"description": "Sylvia Curtis Steinert [1899-1981], Paris and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, to her brother, Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Jr.",
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"The painting apparently resided in the Villa Sylvia, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, until Sylvia Curtis Steinert sold the property upon her divorce in 1936. Subsequently it was transferred to her brother, who resided in the family home at the Palazzo Barbaro, Venice; he is listed as the painting\u2019s owner when it was published in 1956 and 1970. According to Patricia Curtis Vigan\u00f2, the art in the Palazzo Barbaro was crated and stored at the Doge\u2019s Palace in Venice for safekeeping during the Second World War.
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"The painting, inscribed \u201cTo Ralph and Mrs. Ralph / John S. Sargent 1898,\u201d was a wedding gift from Sargent, Ralph Wormeley Curtis\u2019s distant cousin. The portrait was photographed in situ at the Villa Sylvia, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat around 1927.
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"did_you_know": "Although known as John Singer Sargent today, he almost never used his middle name during his lifetime.",
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"description": "One of the most sought-after painters of his era, Sargent achieved considerable critical and financial success portraying cosmopolitan members of high society on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, the artist depicts an acquaintance\u2014a relative of the Colt firearms family\u2014who had recently married his distant cousin Ralph. In her portrait, Curtis wears an elegant satin dress and poses as if she were welcoming guests into her palatial Venetian home. The painting apparently was a wedding gift to the couple by the artist; its inscription at the top right reads, \"To Ralph and Mrs. Ralph, John S. Sargent 1898.\"",
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