here's a selection of white aristocratic women in black dress staring and probably judging you, just because

1. Lady in Black, William Merritt Chase, 1888

2. bIvan Kramskoi - Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1883)

3. Portrait of Empress Elizabeth (1899), Gyula Benczúr

4. Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler, John Singer Sargent, 1893

Nil & Karine Romano, 2022-23