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Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000) by Gustav Klimt, 1912
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
This was a commission — her parents were rich Viennese patrons who put money behind a lot of the design world there. The story goes she was nine, and that she picked how she wanted to stand herself.
Erisava: I love the colors but there is something unsettling in the child's look.
The Fif by Édouard Manet, 1866
Musée d'Orsay · wikidata.org
Public domain
It got turned down by the big official Salon the year he made it, and Émile Zola wrote a defence of him in a newspaper that apparently annoyed enough readers to cost Zola the job. Wikipedia puts the flatness down to Japanese prints and Spanish painting, both of which he'd been looking hard at.
Erisava: There's no room around him at all — just grey. Why paint someone into nowhere?