La Turque (a presumed portrait of the courtesan Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé), by Étienne Aubry, 1779. |
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L'Ombrelle verte (a portrait of the artist's elder sister, Edma Morisot), by Berthe Morisot, 1873. |
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Portrait of a Smoking Lady, by Richard Friedrich "Fritz" Reusing, 1927. |
First portrait lady posed like a Chinese empress, second portrait brings to mind Emily Dickinson and third portrait a very daring woman smoking, when it was frowned upon by polite society in the day. - Rj/IE
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