A young woman wrapped in a black shawl, with a long white skirt and a red flower in her dark hair, walks toward us down a narrow, stone-paved Venetian street. On the right, two men in dark cloaks and hats stand in the shadow of a wall, one turned to watch her. Worn plaster houses with green shutters and shop doorways line the left, and a few figures sit far back against a wall, all in muted grays and browns. John Singer Sargent painted this small picture in oil on a wood panel in 1882 and signed it at lower right.

The Clark Art Institute, which owns a related scene, notes that in Venice in the 1880s Sargent chose to paint everyday life rather than landmarks. He first showed the panel in Paris, at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1882–83, as Une Rue à Venise. Elizabeth Chanler bought it at a Sargent show at Boston's St. Botolph Club in January 1888 and gave it to Stanford White, though a Sargent chronology cited by the National Gallery of Art has Sargent giving it to White in 1887.

It stayed with White's family until the museum bought it in 1962 with a gift from the Avalon Foundation. It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.