Oil paint on canvas
Social class and social type
Artworks
Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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LArmoire à Glace
Purchased 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
bed
bedroom
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
contemplation
countries and continents
de Balzac, Honoré, ‘La Comédie humaine’
Dieppe, Rue Aguado 44
domestic
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
France, Normandy
furnishings
individuals: female
interiors
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
maid
mirror
named individuals
objects
people
Pepin, Marie
places
portraits
sitting
wardrobe
woman
work and occupations
<p>Sickert made sketches for this work in 1922 while he was living and working in Dieppe, but began this painting back in London. The model was Marie Pepin, whom he had employed as a maidservant since 1911. The French title means 'wardrobe with mirror', and prioritises the wardrobe rather than the woman who is seated in the background. Sickert described the scene as 'a sort of study á la [the novelist] Balzac. The little lower middle-class woman... sitting by the wardrobe which is her idol and bank, so devised that the overweight of the mirror-door would bring the whole structure down on her if it were not temporarily held back by a wire.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
14 April 2003 – 4 May 2004
2004-05-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-14
Private Lives
Collection based display
1 March 2007 – 31 May 2007
2007-05-31
25 March 2007 – 29 July 2007
2007-07-29
2007-03-25
Palazzo del Mercato Vecchio (Verona, Italy)
2007-03-01
II settimo splendore. Percorsi e smarrimenti
Loan-out
4 July 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
4 July 2015 – 4 October 2015
2015-10-04
2015-07-04
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2015-07-04
Sickert in Dieppe
Loan-out
28 April 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
28 April 2022 – 18 September 2022
2022-09-18
2022-04-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-04-28
Walter Sickert
Exhibition
14 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
14 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
2022-10-14
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2022-10-14
Walter Sickert
Loan-out
L’Armoire à Glace
support: 610 × 381 mm
frame: 745 × 517 × 83 mm
Purchased 1941
<p>Sickert made sketches for this work in 1922  while he was living and working in Dieppe, but began this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> back in London. The model was Marie Pepin, whom he had employed  as a maidservant since 1911. The French title  means 'wardrobe with mirror', and prioritises  the wardrobe rather than the woman who  is seated in the background. Sickert described  the scene as 'a sort of study á la [the novelist] Balzac. The little lower middle-class woman... sitting by the wardrobe which is her idol and  bank, so devised that the overweight of the  mirror-door would bring the whole structure  down on her if it were not temporarily held  back by a wire.'</p>
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