A couple crossing an empty grey terrace under a small white moon

Most of the canvas is bare terrace, painted as a single sweep of warm grey-ochre. A man in black with a straw hat in his hand walks at the left beside a woman in a rose-pink dress over white, her train trailing behind her. Behind them a clipped hedge, statues and a balustrade run across the picture; two white swans sit on the dark basin at the right; small figures in black move along the far walk. A small white moon hangs in the pale grey sky above the trees. Inscribed and signed along 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.

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