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Description: | Figure subject of a nude woman, seen from behind, seated at her dressing table and brushing her long, auburn hair whilst looking at her reflection in the toilet mirror; these were decorative mirrors popular in France throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She is seated on a low stool which is draped in white fabric, there are bottles of perfume and other such items on the dressing table, to the left there is a long, violet curtain covered with darker purple decorative patterning in a floral motif. The floor is brown with white walls, and there is a unidentifyable object in the right corner of the painting cut off by the painting's edge, possibly depicting an item of clothing.
Technique: oil on millboard
medium: oil paint
Girl at her Toilet by Pierre A. Valette, ?, (1938.406). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.4680 | Go to resource |
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