"This watercolour depicts Sargent’s Parisian friend and neighbour, Henriette Roger-Jourdain.

Wealthy and charming, she was a noted hostess and the friend and confidante of many prominent artists, writers and musicians of the time.

She died from an overdose of sleeping pills, inconsolable, it is said, at the death of her son in the First World War."

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Madame Roger-Jourdain
John Singer Sargent 1883-1885?
Watercolor on paper

P.S. She is lying on grass, not floating on water.