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In a simple bare room, featuring only three objects, a sofa, a full-length mirror and a picture on the wall, a young woman stands in quiet contemplation of her appearance. She wears a striped dress with an overdress of a pale grey, tied in a bow at the waist with a black fringed scarf. Her hair is piled up with one plait at the back. She holds her hands together, grasping a small red flower, the only touch of bright colour in the picture. Depictions of young women at their mirror were popular among the Impressionist painters, and painted by both Edouard Manet (1832‒1883) and Berthe Morisot (1841‒1895). This subject can be placed in a much longer tradition of images of women at their toilette, often presented in the guise of Venus, the personification of female beauty, admiring herself in a mirror, as in The Toilet of Venus (‘The Rokeby Venus’) by Diego Velázquez.
Title
The Full-Length Mirror
Date
about 1869–1870
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 39 x W 26.5 cm
Accession number
NG6702
Acquisition method
bought thanks to generous legacies from Mrs Martha Doris Bailey and Mr Richard Hillman Bailey, Miss Gillian Cleaver, and Ms Sheila Mary Holmes, with the support of the National Gallery Trust, 2024
Work type
Painting
