Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE

This gouache drawing may be related to a handful of similar compositions of a young woman seated in front of a tall mirror that Jean-Gabriel Domergue produced in the early 1920s. It is particularly close to the left half of a painting of Eve at a Mirror of 1921, which depicts a woman looking into a mirror held by a lascivious satyr, with a golden carriage behind. A variant of the composition, with the addition of a standing nude woman, is found in a gouache drawing, likewise dated 1921, which was sold at auction in 2012, while the artist also used a similar composition in a number of large folding screens. A painting of an analogous subject, entitled Dans l’ombre d’une jeune fille en fleur, dated 1922 and exhibited at the Salon of that year, depicts a woman with a fan, dressed in white, underneath a spray of wisteria.