Cashmere by John Singer Sargent

Cashmere   John Singer Sargent  American painter   1908 Bill Gates collection  27 1/2 42 1/2 in. 
Cashmere is an oil on canvas painting by an American artist and the leading portrait painter John Singer Sargent. It was completed in c.1908 and is based on Realism style by use of painting genre. The dimensions of the painting is 71.1 by 109.2 centimeters. It is a painting of Sargent's niece, Reine Ormond, in an exotic cashmere shawl in seven different poses. Reine would have been about 11 years old. It was painted by Sargent when he was on holiday in the Italian Alps.
"On Good Friday Sargent was informed of the death of his niece, Madame Rose Marie Michel, killed in the German bombardment of the church of St Gervais" Stanly Olson. More
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to American parents.
Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.