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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Sounds like the Sargent picture at RISD Museum of Art in Providence to me... Milan R. Hughston http://www.cartermuseum.org On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Edith Louise Crowe wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > One of our support staff is trying to identify a painting she saw in the > Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog as port of their "Women in White" > notecard set. The woman is lying more or less prone on a sofa, her arms > resting on its arm. The skirt of her white dress spreads rather > dramatically over the sofa and down to the floor; it appears to have a > black stripe in the middle of it. It looked familiar to me, and I guessed > Sargent. My colleague thought the same but hadn't been able to find it > reproduced in our books on Sargent. Either we're wrong about the artist > or it just didn't happen to appear in the books we have. Sound familiar > to anyone? Other artists mentioned as being represented in the set are > Chase & Weir but they're not the only ones. > > Thanks-- > > Edith Crowe > San Jose State University Library >