The Waterworks

Pierre-Laurent Auvray after Jean-Honoré Fragonard

National Gallery of Art

This is a print of a scene featuring a lavish bed with draped curtains and a large canopy. One woman is laying on the bed, partially covered with fabric, while another woman stands above her, nude. A third partially clothed woman lays on her stomach at the edge of the bed, and a small dog rests underneath the bed. In front of the bed, one floorboard has been removed, and two jets of water erupt out of the floor and on to the women on the bed. In the top left corner, another woman looks down from an alcove at the scene below.