'Portrait of Constance Mayer' — Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Wrote Holland Cotter in a New York Times review, "[Prud'hon did not] ever surpass, in intimacy, his chalk portrait of his lover Constance Mayer, who eventually killed herself out of fear he would leave her. After her death he gave the image of her tense, fiercely smiling face to a friend to keep. He couldn't bear to look at at it."