The Dressing Room
Artist: Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Original Dimensions: 28 3/8" x 34 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1914) "Bonnard delighted in portraying scenes of domesticity, everyday events that take place mostly in dining rooms and in the bath. This picture presents a casual view into the corner of a dressing room in the artist’s house at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, where he lived during World War I. Space and light seem to be created by the two mirrors hanging on the walls, the vertical one on the right and a horizontal one that reflects a seated woman holding a white cloth and her curled-up, sleeping dog. She is probably Marthe (Maria Boursin, 1869-1942), Bonnard's companion and, after 1925, his wife." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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