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Winterhalter has here tailored his pictorial style to the nationality of his sitter, creating an image of Sarah that is clearly Victorian, combining a sense of material wealth with one of quiet virtue. Sarah is posed three-quarter length, against a plain background, in a billowing white dress. Her marmoreal pose, pale skin, sharply delineated profile and braided hairstyle hint back to the values of classical antiquity, while her crossed hands and the crucifix she wears around her neck suggest more traditional Christian virtues. Sarah projects an image of poise, elegance and quiet confidence, which is conjured from a dazzling pictorial symphony of whites, subtly graded across a range of different surfaces and textures, and which provides an ethereal background against which to highlight the carefully picked out details – pink cheeks and lips, silky hair, richly worked jewellery – which describe her beauty and her status.

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Alice in Wonderland, 1933

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

Earl Moran - "Bus Stop" - June Girls of 1950 Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - "Bus Stop" - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

Alberto Vargas - "Niagara Falls" - June 1962 Playboy Magazine Vargas Girl Illustration - The American Pin-up Calendar Collection