22 Pics That Reveal Hidden Secrets in Famous Works of Art

“Young Woman Powdering Herself” by Georges Seurat

Public Domain

The “young woman” in Seurat’s 1888-90 portrait happens to be the artist’s 20-year-old mistress, Madeleine Knobloch. Turns out Ms. Knobloch may have been pregnant with Seurat’s child at the time he made the painting.

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