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Look for the figure’s reflection in the mirror. Compare its blurred surface with the feathery strokes around her shoulder and hair.
Morisot exhibited this painting at the fifth Impressionist exhibition in 1880. A woman loosens her hairstyle at a dressing table, still wearing earrings and a dark neck ribbon. The mirror offers no clear second portrait: Morisot’s handling of the paint makes a familiar domestic action feel partial and fleeting.
Oil on canvas · 60.3 × 80.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Woman at Her Toilette
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot
- Date
- 1875–80
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.3 × 80.4 cm (23 3/4 × 31 5/8 in.); Framed: 85.8 × 105.5 × 10.5 cm (33 3/4 × 41 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Stickney Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.