Henri Fantin-Latour, French
“Put It This Way. If Women Were Allowed to Work, I’d Tell You Not to Quit Your Day Job,” 1875
Oil on canvas
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/// Mr. Edwards perused his wife’s drawing.
It is clear, at her mind something’s gnawing.
Edwin calmly reviewed
her self-portrait (a nude).
“Do you like it?” (Just hemming and hawing.)
/// His response, long delayed, didn’t cheer her.
“It resembles you, but should be clearer.
It looks unreal because
you’ve omitted your flaws.
Try again, but, this time, use a mirror.”
/// Her reply: “We ought never have married.
You pay no heed to how I’ve been harried.
You forget how I cried
when our first puppy died,
which I bought the fifth time I miscarried.”