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This is a painting showing two people in nature. The person on the left appears to be running towards the right, with one leg in the air and their arms outstretched. They have tan, golden-toned skin, blond hair, and golden fabric draped loosely around them, billowing backward as they run. On the right is a pale person standing upright in a tree, their arms outstretched. They appear intertwined with the tree, with their feet nestled in the light brown trunk and their head and hands covered in olive-green leaves. The background features indistinct brown shapes against a clear blue sky.

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Apollo and Daphne

painter John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

c. 1916/1919

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 82.55 × 73.34 cm (32 1/2 × 28 7/8 in.) ; framed: 88.27 × 78.11 × 7.62 cm (34 3/4 × 30 3/4 × 3 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949)
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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