costumie musing

[rootofnewt]

One year, Lady with an Ermine was reproduced either on a Smithsonian magazine cover or within the magazine itself. That month, I happened to visit the Freer and Sackler galleries fairly frequently. One day, one of the genteel not-quite-elderly (so I'll say spry, which klwalton and red_frog say is when you've actually become old) lady docents looked up and said, "Oh! It's you!"

She then pulled in one of the other docents from the cloakroom and grabbed the magazine--it's her!

I was amused by the docents and laughed with them. I think the lady (probably Cecilia Gallerani) in the painting has more delicate features than I do. She's certainly less busty. But it was amusing. They tried to convince me to dress as her for Hallowe'en some year.

Some year, maybe I shall.

Comments

[eidheann.livejournal.com]

that's.... kinda creepy, actually. the resemblance, I mean.

[phir.livejournal.com]

the freer is amazing. i haven't been there in a few years & it's high time i get my ass back there. you think that living in DC, i'd have the oppurtunity to get out & do something. geez.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You'll need a ferret.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

... ermines ...

[saintaspartame.livejournal.com]

Personally, I find the woman in the painting lacking in humanity, somehow. It just seems like an image of a person, rather than a person immortalized in pigment and oil.

Oh, and that 'ermine' is far too rodent-like for my tastes. Mustelids are much cuter when they don't look like bloody rats or nasty possums.