beauty, success, wealth and happiness. This is also the case in this portrait of Sophie Dorothea: it shows the Queen's wealth with the help of fine fabrics and expensive jewellery. Here, particular emphasis [...] since the invention of the corset, emphasis has been placed on a narrow waist. Although the portrait shows an older woman with idiosyncratic facial features and a double chin, her appearance was strongly idealized [...] across her skin - wanting to enhance them as something beautiful and individual. This portrait clearly shows how similar the historical portrait and our modern-day engagement with our own image are. The desire