Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Spanish-Italian
Note To Artists: If You Hire Tiffany As a Model, You’d Best Keep an Eye on Her, Because She WILL Find Your Liquor Cabinet, ca. 1885
Oil on canvas
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Info, or perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here (archived if necessary), here (Chrome and Firefox browsers can automatically translate the Spanish if necessary), and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Spanish Wikipedia page has more).
/// While Raimundo shows her how to pose,
she trades places and to his spot goes.
She picks up a paint brush.
He objects; she says “Hush…
I can draw just as well as you pros.”
/// Model, Aline, knew Raimundo well.
He’d forgive her mock bid to rebel.
Of her drawing he’d kvetch. He
would complain he looks ”sketchy,”
and his painting, thus altered, won’t sell.
/// He’d paint over the way she portrays
him, assuming that no one would praise
such unskilled naive art,
but her critical start
will come from future use of x-rays.
/// Aline soon was forgiven for faking
skill in art (labelled as “Model Making
Mischief.”) Done all in fun,
her “new job” once begun
might, with practice, be hers for the taking!