Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ba da daɗewa ba baiwarta don zanen hoto ya zama bayyane kuma da sauri ta wuce ɗakin aikin Pfyffer. Ta samu damar lokacin da 'yar uwarta Johanna ta auri wani dan kasuwa daga Berlin. Johanna da mijinta sun yarda ta zauna tare da su a can, kuma ta sami wuri a matsayin ɗaliba a cikin aji na musamman na mata da Karl Gussow ya koyar. A cikin 1882, ta yi nunin farko tare da dillalin zane-zane a Zurich kuma an karɓe shi da kyau. A wannan shekarar, ta bi wani aboki zuwa Paris, inda ta sami matsayi a cikin ɗakunan Carolus-Duran da Jean-Jacques Henner. A shekara ta 1887, ta sami damar tallafawa kanta ta hanyar tallace-tallace da kwamitocin kuma ba ta dogara ga iyayenta ba. Ta kasance mai shiga cikin Salon kuma ta sami lambar azurfa a Exposition Universelle (1889). Ta nuna aikinta a Gidan Mata
a cikin 1893 World's Columbian Exposition a Chicago, Illinois.