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In 1888, Van Gogh came across the works of the 17C artist Vermeer, who'd just been "rediscovered". In a letter to a friend he recommended "this strange painter” who “painted a very beautiful Dutch lady, pregnant". Here’s the painting he was talking about www.artinsociety.com/the-sphinx-o...

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