I saw Madame X at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she is fantastic. And of course I think she would look better with the strap off the shoulder. ;-)
Wow! I've never seen the painting, but it sure looks lovely. And I agree, the strap off the shoulder would seem much more casual/ better (and I would have preferred it that way as well)... a moment seemingly captured in time as opposed to a deliberate "pose" (eve if it was posed that way).
I can see that, or the fact that sexuality was so oppressed back then that a woman would use any opportunity to express herself, especially if she was in an unhappy marriage.
Indeed... until her husband saw the portrait and ordered the 'alteration'... and the "scandal" erupted. It's a shame that the artist wasn't ADM Cooper... who would have kept the painting and then sold it to the husband at an extravagant price w/o alteration.
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I saw Madame X at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she is fantastic. And of course I think she would look better with the strap off the shoulder. ;-)
Wow! I've never seen the painting, but it sure looks lovely. And I agree, the strap off the shoulder would seem much more casual/ better (and I would have preferred it that way as well)... a moment seemingly captured in time as opposed to a deliberate "pose" (eve if it was posed that way).
I suspect that it "slipped" more than once during the posing and served as the artist's "inspiration".
...a kinda "beauty mark" to distract from an otherwise "perfect" portrait.
I can see that, or the fact that sexuality was so oppressed back then that a woman would use any opportunity to express herself, especially if she was in an unhappy marriage.
Indeed... until her husband saw the portrait and ordered the 'alteration'... and the "scandal" erupted. It's a shame that the artist wasn't ADM Cooper... who would have kept the painting and then sold it to the husband at an extravagant price w/o alteration.
I like ADM Cooper's style.
He was a local San Jose boy. My Uncle Louie LOVED his work.
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