portia victoria

[devifemme]

Comments

[eqfe]

Pretty lady.

[karenpiper]

She is rather seductive. There is a hint of renaissance painting about this picture too, don't you think? The picture you posted a few days ago was very Caravaggio-looking, but this, I can't quite work out what it reminds me of.

[ggary]

It reminds me a little bit of a Lempicka. The picture is very definitely posed, and the skin has that flawless quality of the figures in her paintings. It's very stylised. There's very little actually showing, but this makes her all the more alluring. She is very pretty.

[devifemme]

Thanks, all three of you. Gary, I had to refresh my memory of Lempicka -- but you are so right! There's that coolness, as in her selfie, "Tamara in the Green Bugatti." (http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/Autoportrait-(Tamara-in-the-Green-Bugatti)-1925.html)

But you're also nailed it, Karen, very Renaissance -- I just saw one of Lempicka's that also grabs that cinquecentesco mood -- http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/The-Green-Turban,-1929.html

And, Bob, what can I say, except, "when you're right, you're right..."