Fine proof, signed.

Light foxing, mainly visible in the margins and on the verso, transverse fold.

Born in Boston, he studied at Harvard. He arrived in Paris around 1873, where he attended the Académie Julian. A friend of the painter John Singer Sargent, he traveled with him to Haarlem in 1880.

The following year, he married the Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick, and the couple settled in Grez-sur-Loing.

Together they traveled throughout France, visiting other artists' colonies.