12: Mysterious Smile (Wadsworth Atheneum, 2012.13)

Accession by T.H. Ponders

Jul 14, 201828:11Arts

Amongst all the sitters in art history, the people who sit to have their portrait painted, only a few possess this remarkable skill: to cast the most beautifully perplexing smile, that, with a simple curve of the lips, w...

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