Three-quarters length portrait of a nude woman wearing a white dressing gown off her shoulders …

La toilette d'Herminie

Artist Henri Caro-Delvaille (French, 1876 - 1928)

Date1906

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 58 1/4 × 41 3/4 inches (148 × 106 cm)
Framed: 74 1/2 × 57 3/4 × 5 5/8 inches (189.2 × 146.7 × 14.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase.

Object number1910.7

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CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextThis painting is one of only two nudes acquired by Gari Melchers for Telfair’s collection. The other, Reflections (Marcelle) is also on view in this exhibition. Melchers was particularly proud to have negotiated this purchase for the museum, writing, “I have succeeded today, after much persuasion, to buy the finest nude painted anywhere in the last years, by Caro-Delvaille, a three-quarter length which was shown at the Salon three or four years ago, price 6,000 francs. He simply did not want to part with it, and only today at a luncheon party did he give in.”

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