Henri Fantin-Latour

Gustave Tempelaere, Paris

Allard et Noël, Paris

Rosenberg, Paris

F. and J. Tempelaere, Paris

Lintilhac, Vichy

Mrs. Brownlie; sale, Cimiez, Nice, 13 April 1931, lot 20

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 June 1986, lot 57

Sale: Christie's, London, 30 June 1999, lot 131

Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Fantin-Latour (1849-1904), Paris, 1911, no. 1691, p. 180.

Intimate in both scale and subject, Fantin-Latour painted this archetypal mis-en-scene of a woman at her toilette in the last decade of his life. Seated in a garden and nude from the waist up, the woman admires herself in a handheld mirror as an attendant brings a basket of flowers.