Exquisite way to assert herself as a woman in an extremely male dominant era. Kind of a big "F you" to society and a subtle way to make it known that SHE was just as good as any man, if not better. Maybe we're not equal in all things, but we're perfectly balanced to compliment each other.
Everything she did was common, not a first time thing u said. She was an artist are all the other artists back then thus did what everyone did bc was part of the artist work
I did life modelling a couple of times when I was at university. It was really weird, I got to look at everyone's drawings in the intermission before they were finished, and even though I'd been naked, it felt like I was looking at them exposing themselves by seeing their unfinished art