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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is very easy to place in a time period and setting, pre revolutionary France. I had a good idea of how I wanted to redesign Belle and I started by looking at paintings of Marie Antoinette and these ended up being the main inspiration for this piece. I love the rococo style and how over the top it is but I didn’t think this suited Belle’s character. I was initially going to go with a massive powdered wig look and an even bigger dress but thought something more simple seemed more fitting for Belle and Elizabeth Swann from the Pirates of the Caribbean films ended up inspiring me a lot. I wanted to show her holding a book, something which was quite common in a lot of rococo portraits, but I also had to include roses somewhere. I would love to do a portrait of the Beast like this at some point, maybe even do one of them together.

Scott Keenan, 2021

Description
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is very easy to place in a time period and setting, pre revolutionary France. I had a good idea of how I wanted to redesign Belle and I started by looking at paintings of Marie Antoinette and these ended up being the main inspiration for this piece. I love the rococo style and how over the top it is but I didn’t think this suited Belle’s character. I was initially going to go with a massive powdered wig look and an even bigger dress but thought something more simple seemed more fitting for Belle and Elizabeth Swann from the Pirates of the Caribbean films ended up inspiring me a lot. I wanted to show her holding a book, something which was quite common in a lot of rococo portraits, but I also had to include roses somewhere. I would love to do a portrait of the Beast like this at some point, maybe even do one of them together.

Scott Keenan, 2021