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Germaine at her Toilette
Jean-François Rafaëlli (French, 1850-1924)
1886
- Medium
- Pastel on canvas
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Sight: 108.3 × 59.7 cm (42 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This pastel portrait of Jean-François Raffaëlli’s eight-year- old daughter Germaine captures her youthful awkwardness as she prepares to wash. She stands still in rumpled stockings and a wrinkled petticoat, distracted for a moment before beginning her routine. Her plain attire and blank expression contrast with the elegance of her surroundings, which include a finely decorated china toilette set and a gauzy, lace-edged red cloth.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
