At the same time as this etching work, Bernard Boutet de Monvel was working on oil painting and notably portraits, which he began to exhibit at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts or "SNBA" (The New Salon) in 1903 [REF].
His material, which was tortuous and stark initially, using brightly coloured pastes outlined with marine blue shadows ("Les boucheries" (Butcher's stalls), 1904),[REF] suddenly became pointillist in 1904, after a field trip to Florence [REF].