A woman in a boating skirt and dark jacket, hand on her hip

A young woman stands at the front of the canvas in a long white piqué skirt and a starched white shirt with a black bow, a dark jacket thrown over her shoulders and a black belt at the waist; one hand rests on her hip, the other holds a boater with a black band. Behind her, half in shadow, a man in a pale summer suit stands with his arms folded, his beard and dark hair catching the light. The ground is a plain warm grey. Signed and dated at the top right.

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.