Today I'm feeling a kinship with the girl in Pierre Carrier-Belleuse's "Portrait of a Dancer". She's elegant, beautiful, and skilled, but with the slightest note of despondent sadness, as if she has no one who really cares for her, no solace but her chosen craft. 😌

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