Lady Undressing for a Bath

Attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck

National Gallery of Art

The painting shows a woman and a man in a wood-paneled room. The woman is on the left, seated on a blue chaise lounge with carved wooden details. She is wearing a white blouse and a pink skirt, with one foot hovering above a basin of water. Her head is turned to the right. A small gray-and-brown dog is on the end of the chaise longue next to her. On the right, the man is entering the room, the pushing the wooden door open. He is holding a hat and is dressed in a blue tunic with white details, gray gloves, a red belt and red tights, and black shoes. They both have pale skin with rosy cheeks and red lips, and the woman has brown hair pulled back at the nape of her neck while the man has long gray curls. They are in a room with wood paneled walls and what looks like a heater on the far-left emitting steam.