PIERRE PAUL PRUD'HON
Empress Josephine, 1805
oil on canvas 96 x 70 1/2 in.
Paris, Louvre

Come you hated clouds of the lowest times. Appear in front of the old scenes of the beauty and tranquility. Come and appear in your cruelties, but there is the simple feminine life energy you can never beat. There is something of it here in this work, it whispers: my beauty of the life is deeper, my life is deeper than that of the many. This portrait could be of many others too. It is the symbol that has endless meanings. She like empress Sissi Elizabeth: "Who in this fallen globe could know them, who could know them as they really are, I leave this question open to you , open as hanging in the air tonight". This is one of the secrets of the cosmic nature, wider what we know.

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