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When John Singer Sargent went to the Salon of the Champ-de-Mars and saw Whistler's painting and the critical stir it was causing, he was mortified by the similarity and grew upset over the thought that critics would obviously think he copied Whistler. According to W. Graham Robertson, apparently some did. Whistler started his painting in London in the spring of 1891, but only finally finishing the next summer in Paris. Apparently few knew about it until Whistler exhibited it in '94. (See
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