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Date : 1761
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting
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France
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A young laundress wearing, rather improbably, her best dress and red shoes to wash linens gives the viewer a flirtatious glance. The picture caused a sensation when it was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1761; the critic Denis Diderot noted, "This little laundress is charming, but she's a rascal I wouldn't trust an inch". The painting is still in the frame the original owner, Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully, had designed for it.
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