For my copy assignment I chose a painting by Peter Paul Rubens of a portrait of a child. I picked the painting because the little girl's smile reminded me a little bit of the Mona Lisa's smile, and I was interested in looking at developing that idea further. Originally, I meant to incorporate another image in some way--I had intended to use an old Italian sculpture of a beautiful woman to refer to ideas about beauty and the many ways youth is idealized and often coveted over experience. However, I ran out of time so I ended up just beginning to copy the original Rubens painting. Maybe if I come back to the drawing I'll redo the background to further resemble the background of the Mona Lisa.
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