Painted in 1903 when the artist was in Boston supervising a mural project for the Boston Public Library
(Joslyn, 10/13/2008)
Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1867-1941) wearing a white and blue gown with blue stole. A base of a pillar is behind her at left; she rests her right arm on a table covered with patterned textile.
(SIRIS)
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 451.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 110.