"An Artist in His Studio"
1904
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 72.07 cm (22 1/8 x 28 3/8 in.)

©2006,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Hayden Collection

From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

"On a summer vacation in the Italian Alps, Sargent depicted his friend, the artist Ambrogio Raffele, painting a bucolic landscape. The setting is a cramped hotel bedroom. Surrounded by sketches presumably made outdoors, Raffele holds a palette that bears actual blobs of thick, bright paint. Half the composition is given over to rumpled sheets and a discarded smock--an extraordinary display of brilliant brushwork that gave Sargent the opportunity (which he loved) of painting white on white."