3-015-545 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

The Visit, c1870. A woman wearing a luxurious dressing gown sits on a velvet sofa and leans on a mahlstick, an implement used by painters to steady the hand. Her visitor, still wearing a hat and shawl, examines the painting on the easel. Surrounding them are Japanese fans, ceramics, screens, and lacquered boxes that were considered very fashionable among the upper classes in nineteenth-century France.