An unusual self-portrait: 'Beauty Revealed' by Sarah Goodridge (1828) [NO AI]

American miniaturist Sarah Goodridge painted 'Beauty Revealed' in 1828. Why did she paint this unusual self-portrait, and what does it mean? Please be aware that this video features a work of art depicting partial female nudity. 'Beauty Revealed' is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... Chapters 00:06 The artist: Sarah Goodridge 00:19 The history of 'Beauty Revealed' 04:41 An unusual self-portrait 05:09 Encasing the image 05:36 'Beauty Revealed' as sculpture 06:57 Faceless self-portraiture: identity and anonymity 08:27 Body part portraiture: eyes and hands 10:49 Goodridge's possible motivations 11:30 Goodridge and Daniel Webster 13:23 A female-centred reading 16:52 Conclusion: revealing beauty [2343] Published 16 January 2024. SOURCES & FURTHER READING Laura Forsberg, Worlds Beyond: Miniatures and Victorian Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021). Robin Jaffee Frank, Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000). Hanneke Grootenboer, Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Brigid McConville, Mixed Messages: Our Breasts in Our Lives (London: Penguin, 1994). Margaret R. Miles, A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast 1350-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press). Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and his Time (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997). John Updike, 'The revealed and the concealed', in More Matter: Essays and Criticism (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999), pp. 708-716. Original publication: John Updike, 'The revealed and the concealed: an extraordinary love token holds the key to America's ambivalent relationship with the nude', Art & Antiques 15 (February 1993), pp. 70-76. Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: 'Throwing Like a Girl' and Other Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).