A white cloth laid with silver, a girl peeling fruit behind it

A round table covered to the floor in white cloth takes up most of the canvas, set with a silver coffee pot, a footed sugar bowl, a cut-glass decanter, folded napkins and a glass of pink roses. A girl in a black dress with a pink bow in her hair sits behind it, head bent, peeling a piece of fruit. The room beyond is deep red with a lit globe lamp on the wall, a mantelpiece crowded with small silver, and a black open doorway at the centre. Inscribed and signed on the cloth 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.

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.