‘Young woman painting’ is an iconic picture. Some refer to it as a self-portrait while other people understand it is really a picture of Charlotte du Val. I know nothing about the path of that portrait, a road leading to the New York Metropolitan Museum. I guess a philanthropist experienced both the charm and the mystery of that young girl who is watching us, attentive, careful, she has made good use of one of her pencils to do up her hair. Note the mysterious couple in love, visible through the window, deliberately painted…