#Dressing Table

[gatabella]

Rita Hayworth, c.1941

[vintagehomecollection]

Antiques at Home, 1989

[serene-bambi]

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Detail from a 1927 Rose Laird ad by totallymystified

[huariqueje]

Interior at the dressing table  -  Pierre Le-Tan , 1998.

French b. 1950 -

Acrylic on canvas , 130 x 97 cm. 51.2 x 38.2 in.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Dressing Table (1945) by John Wilson

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) with her Two Eldest Sons

Artist: Johan Joseph Zoffany (German, 1733-1810)

Date: 1764

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

This painting shows the Princes appearing only fractionally older than the painting of George, Prince of Wales and Frederick, later Duke of York at Buckingham House (Royal Collection), suggesting that both works must have been on the artist’s easel simultaneously. This might explain why the head of the Queen here and in the portrait on the wall of the other painting follow the same pattern. The setting here is also Buckingham House, but this time the King’s apartments on the ground floor garden façade; these were less redecorated and therefore preserved more of the character of the 1702-5 building campaign and can be seen in an anonymous view of the rear of the house painted at this time.

Zoffany has placed the Queen’s dressing table directly in front of the back door at the centre of the garden façade — the glimpse of formal garden, the height of the aperture and the fenestration of the rooms visible beyond admit of no other explanation. This is clearly a very unlikely position for a dressing table, and suggests either that the Queen was temporarily occupying these rooms while her apartments above were being redecorated or that Zoffany has stage-managed the scene in order to achieve the effect of vistas opening in every direction.

[meisterdrucke]

Who's The Fairest of them All by Frank Paton (Öl auf Leinwand)

[artcorneratthetopofthestairs]

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova; ''Self Portrait at the Dressing Table'', 1909.

[life-spire]

[gatabella]

"At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'"

-Sophia Loren

[prettyvintagehouse]

[fuckyeahbarbarastanwyck]

[cottoncandyme]

parts of my home

[onefootin1941]

Garbo’s dressing table in her NYC apartment.

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