The work, dated 1891, fully belongs to the triumphant moment of the so-called Belle Epoque of which Giovanni Boldini is an organic interpreter in the French capital. The painter's artistic wisdom emerges powerfully in the skillful brushstrokes that suggest the rustling of the silk enveloping the singer's body or that define the exquisite elegance of the long ivory-colored gloves or that construct, with pastose strokes, the frothy fan made of black ostrich feathers.