Girl at her Toilet

Adolphe Valette 1876 - 1942

Summary

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.