A young woman, wearing a white blouse with her shoulders bared and a long black skirt, kneels in prayer beside her bed. The furnishings of this contemporary bourgeois interior include a colorful oriental rug, a turned mahogany candlestand carrying a brass double candleholder, and an upholstered Louis XV-style armchair. Partially concealed by the pink silk bed curtains is a framed crucifix.
Single-figured boudoir scenes, such as this work, were the mainstay of Plassan's oeuvre. A very similar composition, with the same figure and candlestand, entitled "La Prière," was sold at Sotheby's in London, July 21, 1976, no. 45, dated 1862.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18507783" class="extiw" title="d:Q18507783"><span title="French painter (1817-1903)">Antoine Émile Plassan</span></a>
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between 1863 and 1864 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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