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While discussing this painting, Linda Nochlin's essay “Women, Art, and Power” ironically suggests that works like Pretty Girl by Hannah Höch can serve as a deconstructive “alternative” to an event involving it. The pose of this painting's central figure likely draws from a specially-ordered bronze copy of the Borghese (15[1])Hermaphroditus. This painting spent many years in the Yorkshire estate of John Morritt after a shorter period in which it was hung between The Clothed Maja and The Nude Maja by (*) Manuel de Godoy. Pink ribbons drape over the hands of a boy in this painting who holds up an object showing (10[1])a blurry woman's face gazing at the viewer. The arrest of Emmeline (10[1])Pankhurst prompted Mary Richardson to take a cleaver to, for 10 points, what only surviving female nude by Diego Velázquez, which shows a reclining Roman goddess and her reflection? ■END■

ANSWER: Rokeby Venus [accept The Toilet of Venus or Venus at her Mirror or Venus and Cupid or La Venus del espejo]
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