Probably a self-portrait, it is a gaunt, life-sized full-frontal nude with a skin-tone of bilious marshy green and orange nipples and one baleful, red, staring eye.
More likely this is a generalised – and bleak – portrait of humanity at its best and worst.
Merkel kicked off her day with a speech to a joint session of parliament in the royal gallery, which is decorated with the Daniel Maclise portrait of the meeting of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian field marshal Blücher before the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
For the pop up project, In return for having their portrait taken, the local women could receive either 20 dirams (£2) or an original print.
A Robin Williams shoot in a hotel room in central London was going disastrously: the interview had run over, there was little or no time for the portrait, and Williams was bouncing around the place amusing the numerous publicity people and assistants.
A book of Jane's early, pre-portrait work, The Unknown Bown (2007): reveals a technical virtuosity and an innate understanding of the principles of good composition.
Her account of the first Observer commission, which was a portrait of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, is classic Jane: concise, self-deprecating and modestly assured.
His portrait of the composer was the most celebrated of his early career.
The New York Times called the report "a portrait of depravity that is hard to comprehend and even harder to stomach".
A superb screenplay, co-written by Odets, was the launchpad for Alexander Mackendrick's vividly achieved portrait of obsession and betrayal.
So crowded with offspring was the family portrait that the former Pennsylvania senator even carried one infant on his shoulders.
