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Description: | The critic Victor Schoelcher praised Lepoitevin's skill in a review in L'Artiste. Lepoitevin was principally attracted to genre and river subjects and his work was officially recognised when he received the Légion d'Honneur in 1843. In this painting we see a farm girl dressing in a farm building. She is unaware of the viewer as she laces her corset whilst looking in the mirror propped against her lantern. A cow stands in the background. The artist has chosen to represent the scene without any indication of the squalor in which the girl must live. Recent revarnishing of this painting revealed the shadow of a cockerel which has been painted out in the foreground. The cockerel is a symbol of lust and suggests that Lepoitevin intended a voyeuristic twist to the scene. | Subjects: | figure; interior; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lepoittevin, Eugène Modeste Edmond (French painter, 1806-1870) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9022... | Go to resource |
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