Fournager

“Layla”

“Yeah?”

“Love you”

“Ughhh Mama, I already know that! You don’t need to telllll me!”

Then, a few moments later, after some huffing and an eyeroll… “Love you TOO, MAMA!!!!

– 4 going on 14, and she carries on playing with her teddies.

Detail from John Singer Sargent’s painting “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.