Somm showed in the fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1879 and was one of the central figures in the French enthusiasm for Japanese art; Goncourt and Huysmans both wrote about him. His subject throughout was the fashionable Parisian woman, and this is her at a window.

A unique watercolor, not a print, which is worth saying because so much Belle Epoque material on the market is editioned.

This is a genuine, signed, unique watercolor by an artist who exhibited with the Impressionists.