What might an artist’s use of a small scale for a portrait of a lover imply?

A small scale might imply intimacy.

Explanation:

The scale of a piece of art represents what the artist wants to tell us about the subject that is represented. In the case of a small portrait of a loved one, the artist is displaying how he wants to keep the portrait close to him, and express a feeling of affection.

so, not gonna do the actual thing because that's just laziness for an easy assignment like this.

but someone that has a lot of information and interesting details about is picasso. you can easily write a 500 word essay about him and how overtime his paintings of himself got more and more deformed representing that he was forgetting what he looked like and that was from memory.