A broken white gate in a green field under a cold autumn sky

A five-bar gate, its timbers weathered to pale grey and cream, hangs open at the centre of a bright green meadow. Bare trees with a few last russet leaves stand along the middle distance against a broad pale sky, and rooks are scattered across it in short black strokes. A dark hedge closes the field and an ochre wall catches the low sun at the right. Long violet shadows run out towards the viewer. Inscribed and signed at the lower left.

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.