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Beauty Revealed

1828 painting by Sarah Goodridge

Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge.
Depicting only the artist's bared breasts surrounded by white cloth, the 2.6-by-3.1-inch painting, originally backed with paper, is now in a modern frame.
Goodridge, aged forty when she completed the watercolor portrait miniature on a piece of ivory, presented the breasts as youthful and individualized.
She employed a frontal view that showed only the area from the collarbone to just underneath the breasts, thereby anonymizing the portrait.

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