"In early autumn of 1960, Audrey Hepburn and her first husband, actor-director Mel Ferrer, were photographed by Richard Avedon during an intimate moment at a small stone chapel near Lake Geneva, Switzerland, to mark the christening of their son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer. The event, held circa late September, reflected the couple’s deep affection for privacy and tradition, taking place not in Hollywood but nestled in the pastoral charm of the Swiss countryside where they had resided since the mid-1950