EditorialPortrait of a Lady, called Mademoiselle Sontag, Circle of John Hayter, 18001895, British, 1805, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 10 ? 8 inches (25.4 ? 20.3 cm), dress, lady, portrait, reclining, seated, singer.
EditorialSusan Sontag, who argued in her 1978 book “Illness and Metaphor” against spinning literary or abstract intellectual interpretations of physical sickness, sits for a portrait in 1989. (Eddie Hausner/The New York Times)
EditorialPaul Delaroche (1797-1856), born Hippolyte. French painter. Portrait of Henrietta Sontag as Donna Anna, 1831. Oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.