White boulders and a thread of meltwater below a violet peak

A slope of broken white and grey-blue boulders fills the front of the canvas, each block laid in with a few loaded strokes and edged with violet shadow; a thin fall of meltwater drops between them at the lower left. Above, the ground rises in olive and rust to a dark violet-brown peak, with small dark firs scattered along the ridge. The sky is a hard blue with tall white cumulus piled at the left and right. Signed at the lower 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.

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