Как-то это совсем не похоже на отношения обычной заказчицы и художника. В итоге Ренуар был недоволен своей работой и решил написать ещё один портрет. Интересно, а что было бы, если Ренуар представил на их суд этюд 1878 года, где изображение Жанны написано лишь несколькими небрежными мазками.

In Antwerp, painting was considered a dignified occupation, and Rubens worked there. And when van Dyck was 20, rumors began to spread among customers: "Van Dyck paints like Rubens, but charges a lot less"...

Few women at the time were seriously pursuing painting, science or art. They encapsulate the no-nonsense drama that the artist emphasizes. Her father taught her how to paint light and shade correctly. A quality characteristic only of really strong personalities.

He spent a lot of money on the redemption of able serfs young artists, however, once he was bailed out by Emperor Alexander I himself, buying the painting "Threshing Ground".

For artists it was more important to show an intelligent and thinking man, deeply concerned about what is happening in Russia, staying in thought about the search for the meaning of life and the special path of our people and here excessive colorfulness would only harm the whole image.

Artists, as representatives of the creative intelligentsia are often people who are finely sensitive and emotional - with a cold heart would not have been able to write many of their masterpieces, and therefore often fell into various love stories, often quite unpleasant for themselves.