This painting shows a woman standing in front of a wooden dresser with a mirror, her back to us. We can see her face reflected in the mirror. She is gazing at her reflection with both of her hands lifted towards her slightly tilted face. The woman has pale skin and dark hair neatly styled away from her face, and she is wearing a dark gown with white ruffles around the neck. On the dresser, there is a floral arrangement, a pair of blue bottles, and a wooden box holding more containers. Behind the dresser, the background includes patterned wallpaper, a blue curtain on the left, and sunlight…

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The Toilet

Eastman Johnson (American, 1824 - 1906)

1873

Medium: oil on paper board
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 66.5 × 56.2 cm (26 3/16 × 22 1/8 in.) ; framed: 100.33 × 90.81 × 10.16 cm (39 1/2 × 35 3/4 × 4 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Captain A. S. Hickey, USN (Ret.), in memory of his wife, Caryl Crawford Hickey, 1957)
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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