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The drawing is bad, the color atrocious, the artistic ideal low, the whole purpose of the picture being, not an artistic and sensational tour de force still within the limits of true art, as Sargents Salon pictures have hitherto been, but a willful exaggeration of every one of his vicious eccentricities, simply for the purpose of being talked about and provoking argument (quoted in Herdrich and Weinberg 2000, 18) Its Legacy The portraits poor reception at the 1884 Paris Salon soon prompted Sargent to leave France to seek clients instead in England, where he found great success

As advertised in a December 1888 Godeys Ladys Book and Magazine article: The most acceptable present a man can give to his wife or daughter is a dress of handsome, splendid wearing family black silk. (510) In Lady in Black , the subject is adorned with a few accessories that stand out on the predominantly black and brown color palette of the painting