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Perhaps I'm getting confused, but when I look in a mirror, my left ear is on the left side of the reflection in the mirror – no? Are we saying a "mirror-image painting" is like rotating the image 180° horizontally – not just the artist looking in a mirror and painting the image he sees?
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Since the pipe is on the left of his mouth, that would indicate that the portrait is a mirror image, and it was his left ear. Or, if he holds the pipe in his dominant hand, it's his right ear, right now.
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