| The Laundress | |
|---|---|
| French: Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner | |
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| Artist | Jean Siméon Chardin[1] |
| Year | 1733[2] |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
The Laundress (French: La Blanchisseuse[3]) or A Young Girl Doing Laundry (Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner) is the title of three oil paintings by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin.[4] The subject of laundresses, also known as washerwomen, was a popular one in art, especially in France.[5]
- ^ Colin B. Bailey (2000). Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress. Getty Publications. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-89236-564-7.
- ^ Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen (2003). What Great Paintings Say. Taschen. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-3-8228-1372-0.
- ^ John Murray (1927). Murray's Handbook of Travel-talk: Being a Collection of Questions, Phrases, and Vocabularies in English, French, German, & Italian. Macmillan.
- ^ Katharine Baetjer (15 April 2019). French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-1-58839-661-7.
- ^ Malcolmson, Patricia (1986). English laundresses: a social history, 1850-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-252-01293-3. OCLC 12808522.