Le Verre De Porto (A Dinner Table At Night)
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Sargent painted Le Verre de Porto in 1884, during a visit to the Sussex countryside to paint a formal portrait of Edith Vickers. This is one of the informal pictures he made during the same stay. Edith sits at the center of a candlelit dining table, looking directly at the viewer, while her husband Albert is half-cropped at the right edge of the canvas, smoking a cigar. The table has been cleared and port has been brought in — crystal, silver, and red flowers catch the pink glow of two shaded lamps. The painting is designed to look unposed, as if Sargent just happened to be sitting across from them at that moment. It's now in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.