Toilette of a Roman Lady

Toilette of a Roman Lady
Toilette of a Roman Lady

Toilette of a Roman Lady

Date1869
Artist (British painter, 1840–1905)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions44 x 38 1/4 in. (111.8 x 97.2 cm)
frame: 51 × 45 1/2 in. (129.5 × 115.6 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1989
Object number1989-116
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn this painting, a beautiful, if somewhat Amazonian, woman is attended by three equally attractive servants. The setting is clearly classical in inspiration. Solomon visited Italy and Pompeii in 1867, and much of the interior may be based on an actual Pompeian fresco.

Solomon fully embraced the beauty-worship and decadence of the Aesthetic Movement. The androgynous quality of the central figure is entirely in keeping with the philosophy of the Aesthetes as well as with Solomon’s own preferences.

Simeon Solomon
1860 (first exhibited 1860; undated)
The Haunted House
Simeon Solomon
1858
Leonora d'Este
Simeon Solomon
1894
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
Hyde Solomon
1968
Robert Hallowell
1928
Lady Lilith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1866-1868 (altered 1872-1873)
The Toilette of Salomé—I
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
The Toilette of Salomé—II
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1906
© Charles Burwell. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or …
Charles Burwell
1989