# Woman at her Toilet

- By: Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
- Date: 1655 - 1660
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 37 cm x width 27.5 cm
- Credit line: De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4052--731e266a7be9a2db97f1d7eb11c8687c)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/965b857a42389b983bb367200f365754.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.