Elgort photographed Lindgard at the Soniat House Hotel in New Orleans in front of the 1892 painting Pagliacci by the French artist Leon Henri Antoine Loire. The painting, which was then on loan to the hotel from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, likely refers to the story of Il Pagliaccio (The Clown), about a jealous comedic actor enacting revenge on his wife and her lover. The story was later adapted in to a tragicomic opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo and is still performed today.