Melania Trump’s official portrait for her husband Donald Trump’s second term in office as President was revealed on Monday.
The photo in black and white was taken at the White House on Jan. 21 – a day following Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Regine Mahaux is a famous Belgian photographer who shared the official picture on X.
Melania Trump is wearing a white shirt and dark suit as she rests both hands on the table of a reflector in the Yellow Oval Room, with the Washington Monument in the background.
Mahaux has been photographing the Trump family since the early 1990s. He is a celebrated celebrity photographer who works all over the world.
Mahaux also photographed Melania for her official portrait in 2017.
Mahaux, told a BBC reporter: “It was an honor to be selected to take this official portrait a second time.”
Mahaux, a French artist, said that working with the First Lady was a privilege. She is a perfectionist who is very involved in the creative process.
Fashion experts have been impressed by the new picture of the first lady.
“The rhyming of her body with this well-known obelisk, a symbol of the power invested in the first presidency, is striking,” Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, faculty director for the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, told the BBC.
“Her pose with her fingertips firmly placed on a reflective table seems to communicate an eagerness to ‘get to work’ and to act upon the unique platform that Americans traditionally expected first ladies to inhabit.”
The portraits of the president and Vice President J.D. Vance were released earlier this month ahead of the inauguration, ABC News reported.
Melania Trump’s presence has been evident since the Inauguration.
For the swearing-in ceremony, she wore a navy long coat with a matching wide-brimmed cap by American designer Adam Lippes.
Later in the day, she wore a black-and-white gown designed by her longtime stylist Herve Pierre at the evening’s inaugural balls.
She joined the President on Friday to survey hurricane damage in North Carolina, and wildfire damage throughout California.
Last week, the president and first lady marked their 20th anniversary of marriage.
