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The mystique of Sargent's "Daughters" painting

WKAR Public Media
Published April 16, 2010 at 8:34 AM EDT
John Singer Sargent's \"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit\" (1882).
Image Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
John Singer Sargent's \"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit\" (1882).

By Melissa Ingells, WKAR News

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EAST LANSING, MI – Lev Raphael recently brought in a book about the history of a painting by John Singer Sargent.

Lev talked with Melissa Ingells about Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting by Erica E. Hirshler for this month's Under the Radar segment.
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