Artist Unknown, French School
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Oil on canvas
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/// These three figures, an oddly matched crew,
seem to have three unique points of view.
Woman clutches her robe.
A man stoic as Job.
A girl holds some wood on which she drew.
/// Right behind the green curtain’s a tub,
where the middle-aged model would scrub.
She’d be shown in a scene
that’s both “dirty” and clean,
but the bathing scene switched; there’s the rub!
/// For, the artist has now changed his mind,
and the model was put in a bind.
Alone, she would not be,
but, instead, one of three.
Two in front, and then she, bare, behind.
/// The French painter specifically sought her
to pose bathing knee-deep in the water.
Now, she’s far from a prude,
but she would not pose nude
right behind her own father and daughter.
/// The French artist had new inspirations.
He would paint her clan’s three generations.
So the Mom donned a cap,
quickly pulled on a wrap,
and ignored all the painter’s flirtations.
/// The young artist sits silently sketching
her grandfather, who will not stop kvetching.
When the girl was conceived
Mother hadn’t believed
that her Dad (old back then) could be letching.
/// The girl uses white paint on light wood.
Being “subtle” she well understood.
Because, try as one might
(in the brightest of light)
you can’t tell if the thing’s any good.