depicts: domestic worker

instance of: painting (188) | print (7) | sculpture (6) | statuette (4) | drawing (3) | archaeological artifact (3) | item of collection or exhibition (3) | stele (2) | engraving (2) | reredos (1) | illustration (1) | mural (1) | predella (1) | inscription (1) | artwork copy (1) | study (1)

commissioned by: Louis XV of France (2) | William I of Württemberg (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière (1) | Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil (1) | Ottavio Costa (1)

owned by: France (4) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (4) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (4) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | Louis Marcotte de Quivières (2) | Napoleon (1) | Toulouse (1) | Frederick II of Prussia (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Philip III of Spain (1) | Christina of Sweden (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (1) | John Everett Millais (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | National Museum Poznań (1) | Heinrich von Brühl (1)

movement: Orientalism (11) | neoclassicism (8) | mannerism (5) | academic art (4) | Venetian school (4) | rococo (3) | Dutch Golden Age painting (3) | Romanticism (2) | Baroque (2) | Egyptian Revival (2) | classicism (1) | High Renaissance (1) | Realism (1)

genre: genre art (58) | religious art (49) | portrait (32) | nude (28) | history painting (20) | mythological painting (10) | group portrait (8) | landscape art (4) | self-portrait (3) | Orientalism (2) | still life (2) | chinoiserie (2) | figure painting (2) | interior view (2) | erotic art (1) | funerary art (1) | sculptural group (1) | allegory (1)

based on: death of Cleopatra (8) | Judith and Maidservant with Head of Holofernes (2) | Greek mythology (1) | Odyssey (1) | Macbeth (1) | Book of Esther (1) | Book of Judith (1) | Antony and Cleopatra (1) | Marriage at Cana (1) | Olympia (1) | Doctor's Visit (1) | A Woman Washing Her Hands (1)

artist: anonymous (14) | Artemisia Gentileschi (7) | Jan Steen (6) | Gerard ter Borch (6) | Rembrandt (5) | Théodore Chassériau (5) | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (4) | Frans van Mieris the Elder (4) | Peter Paul Rubens (3) | Nicolas Poussin (3) | Titian (3) | Caspar Netscher (3) | Gabriël Metsu (3) | Jacopo Tintoretto (2) | Paolo Veronese (2) | Paul Cézanne (2) | Édouard Manet (2) | Anthony van Dyck (2)

part of the series: Danaë (1) | Cent légers croquis sans prétention pour réjouir les honnêtes gens (1)

material used: oil paint (173) | canvas (113) | wood (18) | canvas (9) | copper (4) | paper (3) | terracotta (3) | panel (3) | watercolor paint (3) | stone (2) | limestone (2) | marble (2) | ink (2) | tempera (2) | color (1) | alabaster (1) | paint (1) | gouache paint (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (47) | Musée d'Orsay (11) | private collection (11) | National Library of Wales (10) | Welsh Portrait Collection (10) | Condé Museum (8) | Musée des Augustins (8) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5) | Museum of the History of France (5) | Rijksmuseum (4) | Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (4) | Palace of Versailles (3) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Gemäldegalerie (3) | Fabre museum (3) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (2)

location: Musée d'Orsay (10) | National Library of Wales (10) | Condé Museum (8) | private collection (6) | Louvre Palace (6) | in Painting's depot of the Musée du Louvre or in temporary movement (6) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (5) | Musée des Augustins (5) | Hermitage Museum (3) | Gemäldegalerie (3) | Rijksmuseum (3) | Fabre museum (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (3) | Room 919 (3) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (2) | Palace of Versailles (2) | Uffizi (2) | Museo del Prado (2)

part of: Welsh Portrait Collection (10) | Life of Esther (1)

country of origin: France (3) | Italy (2) | Spain (1) | United States of America (1) | Ancient Egypt (1) | Duchy of Milan (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (3) | Salon of 1869 (2) | 1st impressionist exhibition (2) | Salon of 1737 (2) | Corps et Ombres (2) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1889 (1) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (1) | Salon of 1831 (1) | Renoir (1) | Salon of 1865 (1) | Manet: the Inventor of Modernity (1) | Picasso and the Masters (1) | Impressionnisme. Les origines, 1859-1869 (1) | Baudelaire (1) | Hommage à Manet (1) | Manet (1) | Salon of 1863 (1)

main subject: death of Cleopatra (8) | Judith and Holofernes (4) | washing (3) | Mary Carryl (3) | Leda and the Swan (2) | Marriage at Cana (2) | Finding of Moses (2) | Bathsheba at her bath (2) | family (1) | Victoria (1) | Lawrence of Rome (1) | hunting (1) | Last Supper (1) | Sixtus II (1) | Visitation (1) | Road to Emmaus appearance (1) | card sharp (1) | Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset (1)

donated by: Dorothy Payne (1)

location of final assembly: France (2) | Rome (2) | Venice (1) | Amsterdam (1) | Madrid (1) | Cagnes-sur-Mer (1) | Marvejols (1)

published in: Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (1) | Children Today (1) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1) | The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-century Virginia (1) | Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to be Both Free and Equal (1) | Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1) | The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting (1) | Folk Painters of America (1) | Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America (1) | Child care: kith, kin, and hired hands (1)

fabrication method: watercolor (3) | bas-relief (3) | engraving process (2) | wood engraving technique (2) | oil painting (1) | chiaroscuro (1) | aquatint (1) | stipple engraving (1)

time period: New Kingdom of Egypt (2)