# Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TERBORCH, Gerard]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on wood, 48 x 35 cm ## Commentary This painting is the first known example by Terborch that presents full-length figures in a well-appointed domestic interior, thereby anticipating many compositions by him and by artists such as <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mieris/frans/morning.html'\)" href="/html/m/mieris/frans/morning.html">Frans van Mieris,</a> Gabriel <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/metsu/hunter\_w.html'\)" href="/html/m/metsu/hunter\_w.html">Metsu,</a> and Johannes <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vermeer/03a/19woman.html'\)" href="/html/v/vermeer/03a/19woman.html">Vermeer</a> in which the same or a similar theme is addressed. The specific subject of a woman admiring or adorning herself in front of a mirror may be traced back in Netherlandish art at least two centuries, for instance in the scene labeled <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bosch/2deadly/7deadly4.html'\)" href="/html/b/bosch/2deadly/7deadly4.html">"Superbia"</a> \(Pride\) in Hieronymus Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins. The theme flourished in sixteenth-century art, and became one of the most common vanitas images in Dutch and Flemish art of the 1600s. ## Related artworks - [A Concert]() - [A Lady Reading a Letter]() - [A Woman Spinning]() - [A Young Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men]() - [An Officer Writing a Letter]() - [Boy Ridding his Dog of Fleas]() - [Burgomaster Jan van Duren]() - [Card-Players]() - [Curiosity]() - [Helena van der Schalcke as a Child]() - [Lady at her Toilette]() - [Lady Reading a Letter \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()