[3] The relatively small image is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Danish Golden Age, and is also one of the Hirschsprung Collection's 20 most important works.

The painting shows a woman with her back turned, with a bare torso, by an oval mirror which reflects her face and the top of her chest.

With her right hand she has lifted and arranged her brown hair, which is tightly set with a centre parting and chignon.

The woman's lower body is draped with a white cloth, which falls down over her buttocks so that the intergluteal cleft is visible.

Eckersberg was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1833 had introduced the discipline of students painting female nudes.

From the angles of the images we can conclude that Eckersberg reserved the best seat for himself while Smith stood by Eckerberg's right side and Henriques on the far right.

The pose of Florentine was reused by Eckersberg years later in July 1850, in a drawing using pencil and sepia and titled Standing model doing her hair.

However, the naked model is not draped and Eckerberg's point of view is completely different, so the woman is in profile and is seen from the right side.

The private atmosphere of the image is emphasised by the muted colors, as well as the effective way in which Eckersberg manages to both reveal and cover the woman's intimacy using the mirror edge and the cloth wrapped around her hips.

The model's position goes back to ancient Greek ideals, as seen in the sculpture Venus de Milo .

[12] The painting has also been called the "Hirschsprung Venus",[13] and in Marianne Saabye's words shows "[classic] calm and grace".

This applies to Female model study: Florentine (1840), Naked Woman in the Process of Pulling On Her Slippers (1843), A Young Girl Undressing (1844), and the Academy of Fine Arts' five nude paintings from 1837.

In the study of Florentine from 1840, she is seen uncovered from the front and the absent eye contact has been interpreted as "a pronounced discretion" on Eckersberg's part towards the female model.

Examples are Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back (c. 1903–04) and Living Room in Strandgade with Sunshine on the Floor.

"[1] Later it came into the ownership of merchant Heinrich Hirschsprung, and was registered in the Emil Hannover catalogue of Eckersberg's works from 1898.

It was part of the exhibition The Naked Golden Age which was shown at the Hirschsprung Collection from 8 September to 27 November 1994.

[25] His student Ludvig August Smith's contemporaneous painting Female Model in Front of a Mirror is in the Loeb Danish Art Collection.

Eckersberg's study in pencil and watercolour is in the National Gallery in Oslo, while the drawing from 1850 with the female model standing in Florentine's posture has been in private ownership since it was catalogued for the exhibition The Naked Golden Age.

[26] The museum's former director, Marianne Saabye, has called it "one of the most internationally famous Danish works of art".

[27] Others who have rated the work of art highly are Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, who considers it one of the period's Danish masterpieces,[28] and Uwe Max Jensen has called it "the most popular Golden Age painting in existence and one of the masterpieces of Danish painting".

The painting is also reproduced on the front page of The Naked Golden Age , the catalogue published in connection with the Hirschsprung Collection's exhibition in 1994, where pictures from Eckersberg and his students were shown.

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