Such a loving way of looking at her. Beautiful hands and eyes.

Thank you for inviting and creating a space to feel everything that's here 🙏💖

@nationalgallery

Ай бұрын

Thank you for being here, Julia ❤️

Thankyou for making me smile .

@nationalgallery

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure, thank you for watching

@RadishTheFool

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your uplifting comment. You make the world a kinder place. ☘️ 😊

When looking at her eyes for the 2nd time you had me

This was surprisingly lovely. Thank you for this recommendation. 🙏

@nationalgallery

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@jakeleo4518

9 ай бұрын

0:26 "with kindness and curiosity" meanwhile when talking about the painting "unequal marriage" make the most rude comments on the old groom

well done. thanks for the narration and recommendation.

@nationalgallery

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure, thank you for watching!

I have a postcard of this lady from the museum in my studio. I love her. The ruffle is exquisite.

Fantastic narrative, really encouraged me to learn

@nationalgallery

Жыл бұрын

We're delighted to hear it

When I told a friend when I was Junior High that I was insecure, she scoffed saying it was ridiculous, that I was pretty and that I had no reason to be insecure. I said that is because you are looking at me with your own eyes and not the eyes of insecurity. She still scoffed. So I said, "Stand up and look at my face closely. Look at it like you are studying the details for the first time. Look at the lines on either side of my lips where I smile. Look at the dark circles underneath its of my eyes. Look at the patchiness of my skin." I continued on and I succeeded too well. She shuddered, sprung back and looked away. And then she looked back at me again after taking normal distance. She said that it was horrible and she was glad that she could look at me with her own eyes again. After a pause, she then said that anybody's face would look horrible if you looked at them like that. And I replied that that was why I was trying to get over it. I did get over it after a while, for decades, but it does tend to creep back if I'm not careful to look at myself...kindly.

This might be a silly question, but was she a real person? If so I it would be interesting to learn more about her.

@barrymoore4470

Жыл бұрын

Not a silly question at all. According to Wikipedia, some have speculated that the painting represents Margarete, sovereign Countess of Tyrol (1318-1369; reigned 1335-1363), whose nickname of "Pocket-mouth" might have made reference to a physical irregularity. At any rate, Countess Margarete died over 140 years before this picture was painted, so it could not be a portrait in the usual sense of that lady. Scholarly consensus has come to rest on the assumption that the painting satirizes female vanity, and was never meant to allude to any specific historical figure.

I love this and I see her is such a different light. She is so sweet and kind looking to me now. I would love to be her friend and sit outside and have tea with her. Maybe she would show me her lovely rose garden too! I feel ashamed for thinking of her as so ugly because I see her light shining now.

What a lovely way to invite a new response to this painting. I suspect the painter may have encountered a woman suffering from acromegaly.

@cathryng3849

9 ай бұрын

I had to look up acromegaly but that makes sense. What if she dressed in fine clothes to show that she feels feminine despite the condition and how other people might see her?

Wow, what detail for an obviously homely subject.

One can see the inspiration for the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland

😮wow

Nicely done, I see the art differently now.

This is #unintentionalasmr gem

The V and A has a ballet costume design by David Rabel (1578-1637) for a character The Old Dowager from a ballet burlesque by Rene Bordier - the Ballet de la Douaire de Billebahaut in 1626. Louis XIII played the lead. So I imagine that there will be a connection somewhere...to grotesque allegory plays..etc

Still looks like a man to me. I always assumed it was a satire of someone well known at the time.

s/he is like many RH- duality in wildlife a simple bat

Vast tracks of land.

Reminds me some minister of foreign affairs tbh. I'd call it sinister minister))

Who is she? Do you know?

"Ugliness is just the most intimating discovery of finding golds/ diamonds as you get closer." -- Probably from The Ugly Duchess --

I think the subject was affected by Paget’s disease of the skull. The frontal bossing is characteristic and is prominent here. This is not acromegaly as the hands, though arthritic, are quite small. Also the skin does not look thickened in the folds on the neck. The woman might have become deaf as the overgrowth of bone can damage the auditory nerves; but I hope she wasn’t.

Was this a real person at one time?

` 🕊️ ☀️ I see a kind soul inside of unattractive vessel.

Grandma.

I feel, remain single.

Who is this brilliant narrator?

The narrative is all conjecture. The portrait is hideous which does not preclude an internal beauty. The ugly and the beautiful. We need to get beyond such a duality.

I don't think she was a woman. At least not biologically. Most of what we perceive as "ugliness" is no more than purely masculine features on a supposedly female face. The hands also look very manly. Something else is going on here...

@SauronsAccntnt

Жыл бұрын

It really is a rather incredible thing to realize how many people have gone through history quietly living outside social norms. Perhaps that is the case here, however I myself am not a delicate example of a woman. I've been called 'man hands' (among other things) a few times lol and her hands look just like my beloved grandmother's. I guess my point is that this was still a tender and moving exercise in looking with love on those who are not classically attractive :)

@Cesarsanvicente

Жыл бұрын

But , what is a woman?

@random22026

Жыл бұрын

True enough--right down to what appears to be hairs on the knuckles. And yet? This was a much needed, most welcome, wholesome message, reminding us all that KINDNESS RULES! 💖🌈🎈☺

@MrGooogleGooogle

Жыл бұрын

its a "picture"of a woman...think whatever you want....we can never fully understand, we can just admire the picture.....

The face looks out of proportion, too much space between upper lip and nose (I'm not a native speaker of English, I'm sure there's a name for this part of the face) - I wonder what's going on there. And am I the only one who instantly thinks of Sergej Lavrov?

@adamjeffries7235

9 ай бұрын

philtrum

It might have been good to be told a little about the painting rather than a lot of who shot John. It hardly needs The National Gallery to ask us how we feel about the subject-any lummox passing through could have said exactly that! Maybe the National Gallery don't have , you know, actual experts on painting any more.

Is not it a joke ? Was not this a man ? Honnestly ?