Sargent's portrait of a celebrated Parisian beauty, all lavender-white skin and black satin in strict profile. At the 1884 Salon it was a scandal, and he soon moved to London. Years later he sold it to the Met, calling it the best thing he had done.
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In the original the right strap had slipped off her shoulder. After the outcry Sargent repainted it in place.
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