Description
A partly nude woman sits with light cloth around her lower body, while another person’s hands tend her hair from behind at the right. The dark interior gives their close activity an enclosed space, keeping attention on bodily position and the shared task. Manet makes a private toilette visible through the relation between the seated figure and the attending hands.
The design dates to 1861–1862, while this etching with roulette and bitten tone on blue laid paper belongs to the Strölin edition of 1905. It represents the second and final state. The distinction keeps the design’s creation separate from a later impression, preserving the work’s graphic history as well as its subject. Manet brings an ordinary private interval into a concentrated image, allowing the figure’s presence and the print’s worked surface to carry the encounter together.
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