Simplon Pass: The Tease
1911 · Watercolour and gouache over graphite, with wax resist, on paper · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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About this work
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
- Year
- 1911
- Medium
- Watercolour and gouache over graphite, with wax resist, on paper
- Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Movement
- Impressionism
Two young women in white, with a green parasol, lie in the grass of an Alpine meadow at the Simplon Pass, one teasing the other. Sargent spent summers in the Alps with his sisters and nieces before the First World War and painted them in watercolour, outdoors and fast, the white paper left bare for the sunlit dresses. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, bought a large group of these watercolours directly from him in 1912, this one among them.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A sunlit watercolour of white dresses in green grass for a bedroom, bathroom or summer house, framed in thin black. It brightens a white or pale green wall and pairs with The Sketchers.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1911)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
