A young woman in a white chemise, blue corset and silk stockings pauses at her mirror, powder puff in hand, and turns to look at us, while a man in evening dress waits on the sofa. The model was the courtesan Henriette Hauser. Rejected by the 1877 Salon as an affront to morality, it was shown instead in a shop window on the Boulevard des Capucines.
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The client is cut off by the right edge, leaving little more than his top hat, cane and profile. Behind the sofa a wading bird appears in the Japanese-style decoration.
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