I saw this link on know your meme for a while so I decided to check it out. A French artist named Joseph Ducreux was a kind of off-beat painter for his time and painted himself in a kind of thuggish manner. The painting is a picture of him chilling with a hat and a cane and pointing at you while seemingly slipping you a wink. It just looks really out of place for a painting of that time, but honestly its great. People started putting rap lyrics on the portrait that kind bash women (which I don't agree with, easy) or anything else that you think he might be thinking. There's hundreds of renditions of the painting all over the web. I just love the fact that the dude looks so chill for somebody coming from that time period. You would expect him to look like a typical French stiff with a powder wig and make up, but this guy is just ready to party. The link is at the bottom.
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