No matter what quotient of Josephine's actual features, Isabey's artful cosmetics, or David's own inventions made it onto the final canvas, Josephine's berouged face evoked the youth and vitality valued in fertile females.

Away, then, away ! The seized cannon are yoked with seized cart-horses : brown-locked Demoiselle Theroigne, with pike and helmet, sits there as gunneress, with haughty eye and serene fair countenance; comparable, some think, to the Maid of Orleans.

The foe of genius, learning's pest, / A pick-fault, scurvy hack at best

Another revelation of impuberal softness […] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.