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Mike,
I know that I am not always consistent in my critique. But I feel that it is OK to go to the limit and sometimes over when it comes to debating old masters, since they will no longer be personally offended. We must try our minds on their works and discuss it freely and we might learn something.
My opinion of the little bather is that it is charming but a bit too sweet. The body looks as if it was drawn from a very bad memory. I can't believe that the shoulder / neck would show no signs of bone structure. The features in the head are painted from the front but the head is seen slightly from our right. All the edges are weak and endlessly repeating them self, the fabric hangs like a curtain, the leaves in the back is all bend the same way and even the hair shape repeats itself three times, at the head, hand and lap.
Now look at a real master, Sargent would not waste his time painting the same thing twice.
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