# Young Woman Powdering Herself

- By: Georges Seurat
- Date: 1888-1890
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: Own work Yelkrokoyade
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Woman_Powdering_Herself_Georges_Seurat.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Young_Woman_Powdering_Herself_Georges_Seurat.jpg/1920px-Young_Woman_Powdering_Herself_Georges_Seurat.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The voluptuous women represented here is the twenty-year-old Madeleine Knobloch, Seurat's lover. She may have been pregnant with their child at this time. Although Madeleine later referred to this painting as "My Portrait", the artist himself chose the generic title it retains today.