Germaine at her Toilette

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Germaine at her Toilette

Jean François RaffaëlliLinkedCulture matchlcp-e3cec13e2faf

Date
1886
Medium
Pastel on canvas
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
104929

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This pastel portrait of Jean-François Raffaëlli’s eight-year- old daughter Germaine captures her youthful awkwardness as she prepares to wash. She stands still in rumpled stockings and a wrinkled petticoat, distracted for a moment before beginning her routine. Her plain attire and blank expression contrast with the elegance of her surroundings, which include a finely decorated china toilette set and a gauzy, lace-edged red cloth.

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Credit line
Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
Provenance
Bertha Honoré Palmer (Mrs. Potter Palmer; 1850-1918), Chicago, probably by May 1910 [Chicago 1910 exh. cat; listed in Palmer collection inventory dated August 1921]; by descent through the Palmer family; bequeathed by Janice H. Palmer, 1985.

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