Jean Raoux was a French artist who was a pupil of Jean Ranc in Montpellier and Bon Boullogne in Paris. He was admitted to the Royal Academy in 1717 as a history painter but it was his portraits, vestals, and genre scenes that made his reputation. Raoux tackled the theme of the young woman with a mirror on several occasions, varying the formats and the number of figures.

The catalog of the Saint Sauveur sale, Paris, February 12, 1776, mentions a pair of paintings that could be identified with one of Raoux's works. The difference in size, however, does not allow for a definitive identification. In her unfinished catalog, Célia Alégret suggests that the format and size of the half-figures of natural size meant that these paintings...