A blonde beauty 1909

This is "A blonde beauty," a painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet. I bet when Jacquet made this he was totally into that golden tone. You see it everywhere, in her hair, in the background. It's like he took a sunset and put it on canvas. The way he’s rendered her skin is so smooth, it’s like, how did he do that? I imagine Jacquet, brush in hand, totally lost in the details, trying to capture that perfect glow. And her expression, it’s like she knows something we don’t. There's a kind of conversation happening, it’s subtle, you know, like the old masters. I bet he looked at a lot of paintings, especially those dreamy portraits, trying to figure out what the hell is going on and how he could do his own thing too.