She was the mother of Ralph Wormeley Curtis -- cousin to Sargent and fellow American artist in Paris. The painting is very dark, though in person you can see gradations of dark colors for the background.

John would later paint her with her husband, son and daughter-in-law in 1898

Exhibitions

Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004

Sargent in Italy, 2002-2003