Skin tones are warmed, in Greuze's depiction of a young, pretty woman in "Wool Winder," and also in three modest Goya portraits otherwise mostly black, white and gray that include a sweet, weak-chinned officer.
But this self-portrait is otherwise so like the one that opens this show, painted more than 20 years earlier, as to measure the loss.
This photographic splurge, whether it's panoramic, portrait, landscape or otherwise, evidently points to a time where the vast majority of the planet is not only documented, but also organised and attached to a navigable map, creating a virtual world very closely resembling our own which we can explore at leisure.
The installation of 124 cheerful portraits in an otherwise gloomy subway station on Memorial Day won praise from just about everybody who viewed them, except New York Transit.
Your otherwise winning portrait of Jude Law tackling "Hamlet" was marred by the mention of unrelated issues in his private life.
Maybe this is why the film was curiously omitted from John Lahr's recent and otherwise excellent portrait of Hytner, who is now the director of the Royal National Theatre.
Our era, however, has fantasy in spades: from Louise Bourgeois and her drawings in red ink and pencil on music manuscript paper to Jonathan Borofsky's wacky, dashed-off dreams, to Jim Nutt's otherwise straightforward portrait, but with several strange growths.
In expanding it into a book Mr. Sheff added some of the warm, fuzzy dailiness of family life to an otherwise stark portrait (both "Beautiful Boy" and "Tweak" describe rituals like carpooling), and, inevitably, he lost some certitude.
Its extensive art collection had us enthralled even before we reached the third floor where, in its own special gallery, gleamed Gustav Klimt's portrait of The Lovers, otherwise known as The Kiss.
There is no zooming, digital or otherwise, in Portrait mode.
Take it away from his head and you have a gentle but otherwise unremarkable portrait of a pensive young man.
