The painting measures at 152.4 × 102.55 cm (60.0 × 40.4 in) and is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

[1] Margaret Gretchen Osgood Warren was born in 1871[1] to an affluent family in the historic neighborhood of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts.

[2] She married into another affluent Beacon Hill family when she became the wife of paper manufacturer Fiske Warren on 14 May 1891.

[3] In April 1903, Fiske Warren commissioned the famous American portraitist John Singer Sargent to paint Gretchen and their daughter.

Sargent attempted to emulate aristocratic poses while using a modern and confident approach to the brush strokes.