John Singer Sargent - Study for El Jaleo: Seated Musicians' Faces, 1881

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This work is a charcoal study of the faces of seated musicians. It depicts four male faces, lighted from below, with their heads tilted backwards. They all have their eyes closed and three of the faces are depicted with their mouths open, as if they are singing.

John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)

Study for El Jaleo: Seated Musicians' Faces, 1881

Charcoal on paper, 23.7 x 33 cm (9 5/16 x 13 in.)

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