Detail of Yoda by BrunoSousa on Worth1000. Click for full image (586px × 1,000px).

In the Star Wars universe, Yoda (wiki) is the ancient and revered Jedi Master, who lived his final years hiding on the swamp planet of Dagobah. Nine hundred years old, Yoda had trained Jedi for eight centuries, and was very powerful in the Force. Among his last pupils were the most important (and reckless) Jedi in recent history, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.

The portrait shown above was created by digital artist BrunoSousa on Worth1000 in 2009. It was based on Bouguereau’s 1888 work L’Amour au Papillon (Cupid with a Butterfly). Below you can compare the two versions. Click the first to visit the gallery where you will find twenty contemporary versions of the original painting. Click the second to view Yoda on Worth1000. The third image shows the “real” Yoda.