Painting and Sculpture

A Nude Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror

A Nude Woman Doing her Hair before a Mirror (Danish: En nøgen kvinde sætter sit hår foran et spejl; often only Woman in Front of a Mirror or with the old title A nude seen from the back, woman doing her hair before a mirror) is an oil painting from 1841 by the Danish Golden Age painter CW Eckersberg. The painting is in the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen. The relatively small image is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Danish Golden Age, and is also one of the Hirschsprung Collection's 20 most important works. The female model was named Florentine. During the same session she was painted by several of Eckersberg's students, and two students' paintings of the same subject are also known. The subject is—as the title suggests—a woman with her back turned in the course of an everyday chore. This subject has been used by other Danish painters, including Vilhelm Hammershøi, whose work, however, it is not a nude painting. Eckersberg's painting has been used as a cover motif on several book publications, and it has been called "the most popular Golden Age painting".

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• ▸Erfurt
• ▸Honolulu Museum of Art

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