Young Woman at her Toilette

1515, Artist: Giovanni Bellini

 

 

Young Woman at her Toilette

At an already advanced age, Bellini turned to the depiction of a new, “modern” theme, the female nude. In a balanced interplay of warm and cool colours, round and rectangular forms, proximity and distance, activity and passivity, the painter of the Madonna pays homage to the sight of a young woman. Absorbed in her own reflection, she embodies at the same time the act of contemplation. Yet the actual subject of the painting is beauty and the creative power of painting.

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kabinett 4

Object data

Object Name

Painting

Culture

Italian, Venetian

Dated

1515

Artist

Giovanni Bellini (um 1430 - 1516 Venedig) - GND

Material

Poplar wood

Dimensions

above and below each 1 cm attached: 62,9 cm × 78,3 cm × 3 cm
Overall: 62,9 cm × 78,3 cm
Framed: 75,2 cm × 92 cm × 4,5 cm

Signed

Inscribed on a label at lower right: Joannes bellinus faciebat M.D.X.V.

Image rights

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie

Inv. No.

Gemäldegalerie, 97

Provenance

1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; 1659 Coll. Leopold Wilhelm, Brussels

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