https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437879
(In Public Domain)
Third Granddaughter – 09/28/20
…and as she gazed at her finished portrait, she was pleased, more pleased the longer she beheld it, not even hearing the painter…hmm, a nice looking young man, but still too old for her, one reason she smiled…now hearing her father discussing the final price, the gold and silver, for her portrait, as if for her, that was always funny, and when she posed, that was why she smirked, it was funny and it made her laugh inside and happy as most things to her were funny and amusing, because she was always, it seemed, able to look into others and either understand or see through them, depending if they were either kind and good, or just something else as if they weren’t really what they were, not even knowing themselves what they were and what they weren’t, and sometimes that was sad and sometimes that was really funny, and most times it was both, because that’s the way most people are. And as she looked at the painting, she smiled more and she smirked more, as now she beheld herself now made immortal as long as the painting existed, but more, more than that, she smiled and smirked because the painter painted her looking at him, painting what she thought of him, and that is for all to see as long as the painting lasted and that was also funny…
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