Princess Grace of Monaco and Maria Callas leaving the Gala des Rois, a charity gala for refugees organized by Prince Sadruddin Khan at Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo in 1963. The program cover was designed by Jean Cocteau.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel earned much of his contemporary fame for his photorealistic society portraits. The chic Duchesse de Brissac, née armaments heiress Marie-Zélie Schneider, sat for the artist in 1945 at his Paris home wearing a silk dress and emeralds and leaning against a lacquered cabinet.
One of Boutet de Monvel’s most famous works, a 1932 self-portrait shows him smartly attired and seated in a window of the Ritz hotel in Paris, overlooking Place Vendôme.