In his poster advertising the Christmas 1896 issue of Harper’s, Edward Penfield deploys the red, yellow, black, and white blocks of color that characterize many of the compositions of his famous French colleague Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The woman’s distinctive stepped hat might also have been derived from the one seen on the head of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite Monmartre performer, Jane Avril, as she sits in the audience of Le Divan Japonais, a famous Parisian nightspot, in his poster of 1892-93, or as she inspects a print on the cover he designed for L’Estampe originale portfolio in 1893. But overall, Penfield’s woman, with her elaborate hat, fur muff and collar, and close-fitting outfit with architectural sleeves, seems closest to the French artist’s representation of Misia Natanson on his 1895 cover for the literary journal La Revue blanche. Natanson was the wife of one of the journal’s editors.