"I learned of this painting through the 1977 movie The Lacemaker (French: La Dentelliere) (which I think I saw circa 1981), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lacemaker. The painting is a lovely portrait of a girl making lace, but also of a girl whose history, what led her to this point, one can only guess. I have seen the painting numerous times at the Louvre in Paris, but sometimes it is in storage and not on view." Simon Frankel
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