The subject of this work is the artist’s niece, Rose-Marie Ormond, who was then fifteen. She is shown by a stream in Aosta, northern Italy. Ormond was Sargent’s travel companion and one of his favourite subjects. She features in a number of his Alpine pictures, which he painted in an impressionistic style, either in oil or watercolour. Here, Sargent captured the movement of light and shadow on the stream, yellow flowers and the fabric of Rose-Marie’s dress with thick, loosely handled paint. [Tate, London - Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 69.8 cm]