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Woman at her Toilet
Also titled Het toilet
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
1655 - 1660
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 37 cm x width 27.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Presented here is an intimate moment of a young woman undressing before going to bed. She is in the midst of pulling off a stocking, with the imprint of the garter still visible just below her knee. The raised skirt provides a glimpse along her legs. Such explicit nudity, however, was not always deemed acceptable; until a hundred years ago, an underskirt was painted over her thighs.
