A woman in startling white attire holds aloft a white cloth above a censer catching the fumes of amergris in John Sargent's "Fumee D'Ambris Gris" a famous 19th century portrait. The white walls of a building in the background secure the predominance of white colours and the female's face is mostly hidden by the overhead cloth. The woman is positioned in a corner and there seems to be the suggestion of religious ceremony to the painting.
