The 1.85 metre (6ft) oil painting depicted Wilde as a slender 27-year-old on the cusp of success, the exhibition curator Clare Barlow said.
I meet many 20-year-olds on the cusp of aging out of foster care.
On the surface, the book is a straightforward coming-of-age story: 11-year-old Bobby Burns, on the cusp of adolescence, finds himself negotiating old and new friends, starting at a different school, worrying about his father's cough.
They went seeking solitude, but instead found themselves at the violent cusp of old India and new.
I moved from one office to the next, interviewing the old wave on the cusp of the new.
Set in London suburbia, it stars Ruth Sheen and Jim Broadbent as Tom and Gerri, a kind, contented couple on the cusp of old age who observe and worry about the struggles of their friends and relatives.
Tobias (John Lithgow) and Agnes (Glenn Close), a well-to-do couple on the cusp of old age, are enjoying a quiet evening at home with Agnes's bibulous sister, Claire (Lindsay Duncan in a doubtful wig).
A petite beauty who always looked far younger than her years, friends said, she grew up in Hingham, Mass., a largely blue-collar town, the daughter of parents balancing on the cusp between old money and middle class.
He was on the cusp of old, about 30.
Seven-year-olds are on that cusp between suspending their disbelief and appreciating the effort.
