Artist: Richard Emil Miller
Date: 1910
Size: 81 x 100 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Richard Miller’s La Toilette shows an elegantly dressed, red-headed woman in a domestic interior who entwines a beaded necklace in the fingers of her left hand and examines her appearance in a small mirror held in the right. The subject of ethereal feminine beauty and an interest in atmospheric effect were typical for Miller, an American who studied in Paris before returning to the United States upon the outbreak of World War I. Indeed, his use of vibrant color applied in dynamic, broken strokes reflects his investment in an Impressionist style. Like many artists who employed Impressionism to depict female beauty, Miller draws a parallel between a woman at her toilette, or in the act of making up her face, to the painter’s art of applying pigment to canvas to represent a scene. Each is artifice.
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