This is the painting Juliette Récamier by Kehinde Wiley. It is of a woman sitting in a formal dress on a couch surrounded by flowers and leaves. Notably about the painting though the woman is on a couch, she does not seem to be resting because she is sitting in a formal dress and her posture is very stiff. Something that I noticed after studying the painting for a while was that the woman’s eye makeup seems to resemble that of an Egyptian queen’s, giving an aura of power. I noticed that the painting stood out to me compared to the other works because it resembled a Manet painting it was based on that had a white figure but also had a black figure originally in a subservient position in the painting as well. -Elizabeth Gowans
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