A pink satin gown spilling over a gilt sofa, two children behind

A woman sits forward on the arm of a gilded rococo sofa in a pale pink satin gown that spreads across the whole lower half of the canvas, a long rope of pearls hanging to her lap and a closed fan in her hand. A pink bow is set in her dark upswept hair. Behind the sofa back, painted with a flowered cover and a small cherub scene, her two children lean over the gilt frame and look out; a striped book lies on the seat at the left. 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.