Art review: “Woman at her Toilet”, by Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1655 – 1660

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Let’s analyse this wonderful painting: The painting is a bit too revealing, whoever put this on their wall may have shocked their guests or hid it when visitors were coming.In the 1800s someone decided to add a skirt to protect the ladies reputation and the poor innocent museum visitors, luckily the painting has since been restored.But for us it’s mostly just a wonderful intimate peek into daily life.You can see a much bigger version here at the Rijksmuseum website:https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Woman-at-her-Toilet–731e266a7be9a2db97f1d7eb11c8687c The woman is undressing, we can see that because the garter (ribbon) that she just untied that kept her stocking up has left a clear mark on her leg: There’s a mark on her other leg as well, that stocking is already gone, I can’t see where it went: It’s…