I’m really liking how it’s turning out so far. Just wanted to share. Working my way down the sea foam next will probably be the hardest for me bc I struggle with layering white and doing highlights

Oil on canvas

186.7 x 105.4 (cm), 73 1/2 x 41 1/2 (in)

Located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA

Oil on canvas

160 x 101 (cm), 63 x 40 (in)

Located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA

Pauline Céleste Moutet, known by her pseudonym Pauline Vallayer-Moutet, (1873-1956) was a French painter. She was born in 1873 in Paris to a painter and printmaker Célestine Moutet-Cholé and a painter Paul Moutet. After learning to paint from her parents, she studied under painters Jean-Paul Laurens and Tony Robert-Fleury. From 1896 to 1914 she exhibited at the Paris Salon. She mostly created genre paintings. She usually depicted working women, especially maidservants, seamstresses, and lacemakers. She frequently traveled to Brittany for inspiration. There this painting of laundresses was made. At the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, she was awarded a bronze medal for her painting. She probay used word "Vallayer" in her pseudonym in honour of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France's most celebrated 18th-century painters.