The portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, painted around 1805 - 1809 by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson.
In this version, on a black background, she is half hidden behind beautiful flowers, taken from the painting "Vase with Flowers", painted in about 1670 by the Dutch painter Jan Davidsz de Heem.
Please take a look at this work with a black frame as your choice, it gives the portrait more depth, like an almost magical 3D effect.
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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