Sketching the Ubiquitous Face of Luigi Mangione
“I was so disappointed that they had changed him out of his orange jumpsuit,” said courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.
by Valentina Di Liscia 
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“And that’s when I learned that I’m not going on social media, because there’s a million people hiding behind screens who think they’re art critics, and I’m just not going to deal with that,” she said.
In many other instances, Rosenberg has garnered praise for her ability to seize the moment and render the ineffable essence of an individual, as during the trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, whom the artist sketched staring directly at her and drawing her right back.
It is said that artists are their own worst critics, and for her drawing of Mangione, Rosenberg lamented that she did not have more time to pin down the composition.
“I wanted to get his je ne sais quoi,” she reflected. “He did a little head tilt from one side to the other, and I wanted to try to go for that a little more. But I had to knock it out as fast as possible.”
She concluded: “I want another shot at it.”
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