Young Woman Combing Her Hair

Achille Deveria (1800-1857) was a French artist known for the precisely observed, characterfully composed drawings and prints that make him one of the most accomplished artists of the 19th-century French tradition. Young Woman Combing Her Hair from the 1800s (before 1857) depicts a young woman combing her hair in the precisely observed, characterfully composed manner that distinguishes Deveria's best work from the more general drawing of his contemporaries. Deveria was known for his precisely observed, characterfully composed depictions of intimate domestic subjects that capture the personality and beauty of his subjects with remarkable delicacy, and the drawing shows the French drawing tradition at its most accomplished.

Young Woman Combing Her Hair is important in the history of French drawing because it demonstrates the precisely observed, characterfully composed manner that Deveria brought to intimate domestic subjects as one of the most accomplished artists of the 19th-century French tradition. Deveria's precisely observed, characterfully composed depictions of intimate domestic subjects—capturing the personality and beauty of his subjects with remarkable delicacy—represent one of the most accomplished traditions in French drawing, and the drawing shows this tradition at its most precisely observed.

Young Woman Combing Her Hair is Deveria's precisely observed French drawing: a young woman depicted in the characterfully composed manner of one of the most accomplished artists of the 19th-century French tradition. The drawing shows intimate domestic subjects at their most precisely observed.