dress blue long sleeve Crystal Floral Embellished Maxi Airy woven chiffon shapes this elegant gown that has long Dusty Blue Sequined A-Line Long

Her apparent lack of underwear and daringly dropped shoulder strap (later repainted by Sargent) in combination with her heavy makeup and seeming indifference to the viewer provoked scandal when the work was first exhibited in the 1884 Paris Salon

The timing, the distance the page boys walked behind her everything had to be perfect. Keller added in the interview, There are always things you think about, but I have to say [the party was] very good at rehearsing

Ive always loved this shot, and now I have it in greeting card for all my correspondence

After cleaning up the sanding dust, I used some staining pads to apply Minwax wood stain in Red Mahogany