Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, French
Yikes. Piper Definitely Wasn’t 3 Years Old Anymore. But It Was Nothing a Little Botox and Juvéderm Couldn’t Handle, 1787
Oil on canvas
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/// Julie’s seven— the painter’s sole child.
As instructed, the girl never smiled.
Holds a mirror and thus
she can stare straight at us.
Sad and solemn, she has us beguiled.
/// There’s two sights of her face side-by-side.
(Like those posters that sheriffs provide.)
Head-on and profile, too,
it’s a true two-faced view.
That she’s “wanted” is what is implied.
/// Miss Le Brun, with her large, wide-set eyes,
appears (for one her age) very wise.
She’ll learn more as she grows—
what each pretty girl knows:
How to flirt and get noticed by guys.