Sargent Fishing for Oysters at Cancale 11x14 Matted Print
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Fishing for Oysters at Cancale , 1878 John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Gift of Miss Mary Appleton, 1935 Accession number: 35.708 In 1877 the twenty-one year old Sargent spent the summer in Cancale on the coast of Brittany sketching fisherfolk. He sent his first completed painting, "Fishing for Oysters at Cancale," a finished sketch, to New York for display at the newly-formed, avant garde Society of American Artists. Sargent submitted the second painting, "Oyster Gatherers…