Paul Delaroche
The Young Martyr
1855

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While creating this post, I opened a picture of the painting in Photoshop. I wanted to get rid of the grey border at the top. I made a selection around the painting and tried to inverse my selection using a shortcut key. However, I hit the wrong key and the image below was produced.

192. Cyanosis: “a blueness of the skin due to imperfectly oxygenated blood, as from a malformation of the heart.” As in: “His love for me produces a cyanosis” (S. Judd, 1851) — Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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