A deep green door under a marble arch, steps washed in lilac

A tall green door stands at the centre under a semicircular marble arch, its panels painted in dense blue-green washes against the cool white and grey of the stone. A shallow niche with a carved figure shows in the pier to the right, and a fluted column edges the composition at the left. Below the threshold the broad steps are laid in as flat bands of lilac, pale violet and cream, with the paper left almost bare at the bottom.

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the leading portrait painter of his generation, born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris under Carolus-Duran. The scandal of Madame X drove him to London in 1884, where he painted the aristocracy and the great merchant families for two decades before abandoning commissioned portraiture in 1907 for watercolour, landscape and mural work. He travelled constantly — Venice, the Alps, Spain, the Middle East, Florida — painting in oil and watercolour with a bravura touch that was widely imitated and never matched. His work is held by the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tate and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.