Painting by Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist Painter (1841 — 1895). This image has been released to the public by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the occasion....it is rather the painter...who reveals himself.

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (known as Oscar Wilde) (1854 — 1900).</p>"