[Update: Image is NOT Isabella Eugénie Boyer; see below.]
The face of the Statue of Liberty. Isabella Boyer’s life is like an exciting novel. She was born in Paris, the daughter of an African pastry chef and an English mother. Isabella had a special beauty and, at age 20, she married Isaac Singer, the sewing machine maker, who was 50 years old. After Singer’s death, Isabella became the richest woman in the country. It is not surprising that she was chosen as the model for the Statue of Liberty, as she embodied the American dream. Widowed, Isabella traveled the world and married the Dutch violinist Victor Robstett, becoming a countess. He became a prominent figure in America and Europe, and met the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi at a world event. Bartholdi, impressed by her beauty and history, used her face as a model for the Statue of Liberty. Isabella married a third time and died in Paris in 1904 at age 62, but her face lives on in the iconic statue in New York, symbolizing freedom and American pride.
[Found here, h/t Eaglesoars]
UPDATE: The top image appears to be the work of Bas Uterwijk and is an A.I. generated image of Aphrodite, not Isabella Eugénie Boyer (who may or may not have been the model for the Statue of Liberty).
More about the viral photo here, here and here.
[h/t Gabriel]
Tacky Raccoons 
…I don’t know. Reuters did a fact check on this a couple of years ago, and found that Isabella Boyer was not the model for the Statue. Some of the links in the Reuters story are out of date, so it might be easier to Google: “Bas Uterwijk + Lady Liberty”… Bas is an artist who does AI versions of historical figures.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/photo-does-not-show-model-for-the-statue-of-liberty-idUSL2N2VE1SC/
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Well that’s embarrassing. Even Snopes debunked the image in 2022, and it’s not even Bas Uterwijk’s “Statue of Liberty” – it’s his AI generated image of Aphrodite. Thanks for the fact check, I’ve updated the post with a h/t to you.
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