The painting is set in the drawing room of Perry's residence during her 3-year stay in Japan (1898-1900), and it is significant that while her older sisters are dressed in Victorian white, Alice wears an Asian design, with her hair pulled into a single Oriental braid.
The children were painted individually and as a group, notably in The Trio (1899), which hangs in Harvard's Fogg Museum, and which shows Margaret with violin, Edith with her cello and Alice at the piano. (We hold a letter from Alice's grand daughter identifying the subject.) Perry painted all her children, including Margaret (b. 1884) who was a frequent subject and whose photographs (at Harvard and elsewhere) make this identification abundantly clear. The model for Lilla Cabot Perry's (1848-1933) Lady in a Kimono is her daughter Alice (b.
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