Henri-Pierre Danioux, French
Art Thief Posing For Her LinkedIn Profile Photo, 1792
Oil on canvas
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MASTERPIECE #3582
/// Fetching actress to whom males respond,
(courtesan to men even more fond),
Mademoiselle Rosalie
Duthé turned out to be
the prime archetype of “the dumb blonde.”
/// The first girl to cause people to say
blondes are brainless, and that false cliche
is the source of “blonde jokes,”
a routine which provokes
fair-haired women to cringe to this day.
/// She was beautiful, charming and young—
and the lover of several among
the Parisian elite.
So adorably sweet,
here she shows she knows what is well huņg.
/// When she posed, there was no painting there.
Merely held out both arms in mid-air.
As an actress, Duthé,
pantomimed in each play.
Hold a real frame? No, she wouldn’t dare.