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A woman getting out of bed in an elegant interior, with two servants about to help her get dressed, while her husband sits in an armchair at right

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)|Joseph Wagner|Charles Joseph Flipart

1748

A woman getting out of bed in an elegant interior, with two servants about to help her get dressed, while her husband sits in an armchair at right by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)|Joseph Wagner|Charles Joseph Flipart

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 17 15/16 in. × 14 in. (45.5 × 35.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968

Accession Number

68.542.4

Tags

InteriorsBedroomsMenWomenServants

Art Historical Context

In the intimate etching *A Woman Getting Out of Bed in Elegant Interior, with Two Servants About to Help Her Dressed, While Her Husband Sits in Armchair at Right* (1748), Venetian artist Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) captures a candid moment of 18th-century domestic life. Collaborating with etchers Joseph Wagner and Charles Joseph Fl, Longhi depicts a-to-do woman rising from her ornate bed, attended by two servants, as her husband lounges nearby in an armchair This scene exemplifies Longhi's signature genre style—small-scale, observational vignettes of Venetian bourgeoisie and aristocracy, blen...

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