Edwardian Valentine's Day Greeting Card: Artist Painting Heart Portrait

A winged cupid wielding a paintbrush and palette stands before a heart-shaped easel, and what he's doing there is painting a woman's face directly onto the canvas while a pink-gowned woman crouches behind him, peering over his shoulder like a client micromanaging her own commissioned stalker-art. The woman being painted wears the expression of someone who has accepted her fate as decorative object, staring blankly from inside the heart-frame while little dangling heart ornaments ring the card's border like this is all completely normal. 'The Ideal of My Heart' hits different when you realize Cupid is literally manufacturing the ideal — brushing her into existence on demand — which is either the most romantic or most unhinged thing a 1917 greeting card has ever proposed.