From Wikipedia: According to Serebriakova, the winter came early in that year, there was a lot of snow, but it was warm in the house, so "she started to paint herself in the mirror, entertaining by drawing different small things from her dressing-table".

Here's a great video describing the context of the painting and Zinaida's rather tragic life that followed this happy moment.

Other paintings by her:

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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

That's what I was thinking. I had to look around the room at some of the objects (like the candle holders up front) to realize it's from on older time.

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