This is one of a series of eighteen lithographs created in Paris in about 1910 by a French artist who signs himself "Laviny". Their subject matter is of beautiful women dressed in fantastical and extraordinary costumes which represent various aspects of Paris. Whilst the outfits are ultra-fashionable in silhouette, they are very exaggerated and were probably not intended to be made up in real-life, but were made to amuse and for decorative purposes. The lithographs were printed by Fattorini et Crespin of Paris.

This costume represents the Palais des Beaux-Arts, part of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts or National School of Fine Arts. The model wears a black jacket and skirt and a blouse with a large red scarf tied in a bow at the neck, a feminised version of the clothing populary associated with artists. She carries a paint palette and an exaggeratedly large pencil, and has large quill-pens stuck through her large black hat. Splotches of colour around the hem of her skirt artistically suggest the paint-splattered clothing of artists.