Germaine at her Toilette

Prints and Drawings

1886

Jean François Raffaëlli
French, 1850-1924

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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Artist: Jean-François Rafaëlli
Title: Germaine at her Toilette
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1886
Medium: Pastel on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "J.F.Raffaelli"
Dimensions: Sight: 108.3 × 59.7 cm (42 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.982
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Art Institure of Chicago, “Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer,” May-Aug. 1910, cat. 46, as Portrait.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy,” June 22-Sept. 29, 2013.

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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