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After Robert Gemmell Hutchison RSA RSW (1855-1936) - Oil, Washing Day
Located in Corsham, GB
diligently washing clothes in a copper basin. The artist employs light impasto to bring texture to this
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Provincial Chinese Washing Stick, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
been used by a Qing-dynasty woman for washing clothes and textiles. Used to beat wet fabrics against a
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Rustic Mounted Objects

Materials

Fruitwood

19th Century Chinese Washing Stick on Stand
Located in Chicago, IL
been used by a Qing dynasty woman for washing clothes and textiles. Used to beat wet fabrics against a
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Mounted Objects

Materials

Steel

18th Century Genre Oil on Canvas of Mother and Child in Gilt Frame
Located in Fayetteville, AR
mother washing clothes while her young son plays nearby blowing bubbles. Unsigned.
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Antique 18th Century French Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Vintage Galvanized Zinc English Dolly Tub
Located in Wichita, KS
washing clothes. Dolly tubs make wonderful pots for plants. They are perfect for the home or garden.
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Antique Early 1900s English Industrial Planters and Jardinieres

Materials

Zinc

French School Oil Painting Signed by Artist, C. 1920 s
Located in Ross, CA
artist depicts a woman washing clothes on a riverbank. By sight 9.5 wide x 6.25 tall
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Vintage 1920s French Beaux Arts Paintings

Materials

Walnut, Paint

19THC HANDMADE WASH TUB AGITATOR FROM THE MIDWEST
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19THC VERY UNUSUAL HAND MADE WASH TUB AGITATOR,MADE FOR WASHING CLOTHES BY HAND IN A WASH
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Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Sculptures

Antique Framed Oil on Canvas by J.Capelle ~ SUPER SALE ~
Located in Dallas, TX
This superb older work depicts a family down by the river washing clothes. Although the canvas by
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Antique 19th Century French Paintings

S. Murcard - Early 20th Century Oil, The Washerwomen
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightfully expressive scene depicting women washing clothes in a local stream. In the
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20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Laura Kelemenné Mészöly (1919-1976) - Mid 20th Century Oil, By the Water
Located in Corsham, GB
figures collecting water, washing clothes and loading rowing boats at the edge of a river. Signed to the
Category

20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Genaro Alvarez Mosaic Panel Agave Landscape Clothes Washers Mexico, circa 1955
By Genaro Alvarez
Located in Camden, ME
A Genaro Alvarez midcentury mosaic panel depicting a group of village women washing clothes on a
Category

Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art

Materials

Brass

Albert Ernest Brockbank (1862-1958) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Wash Day
Located in Corsham, GB
A view along a canal in the countryside, featuring a woman washing clothes before hanging them on
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

T. S. after Francois Boucher - 1978 Oil, Le Moulin
Located in Corsham, GB
idyllic French countryside with a mother and child washing clothes in the river to the foreground
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Em Isaacson - 2005 Pastel, Wash Day
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine contemporary pastel drawing, showing two woman leaning over, engrossed in washing clothes
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

L. Clayton - Framed 20th Century Oil, Dutch Street Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
washing clothes and taking a stroll. The artist has followed the traditional 19th century style of Dutch
Category

20th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pair of Early 20th Century French Hand-Painted Faience Wall Plates
Located in Dallas, TX
farmers attending their animals and women washing clothes with a farmhouse, barn and church in the
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Early 20th Century French Decorative Art

Materials

Faience

19th Century Hungarian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Frame Signed Guniczky
Located in Dallas, TX
1870; the art work depicts a typical pastoral scene with a farmer lady washing clothes in front of a
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Hungarian Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century, Hungarian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Frame Signed Guniczky
Located in Dallas, TX
1870; the art work depicts a typical pastoral scene with a farmer lady washing clothes in front of a
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Hungarian Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl from Granada
Located in Wichita, KS
milk-white base. In the past, this bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes
Category

Antique 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl from Granada
Located in Wichita, KS
milk-white base. In the past, this bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes
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Antique Early 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

Maurice Lévis (1860-1940) - French Watercolour, Chateau on a Riverside
By Maurice Levis
Located in Corsham, GB
hillside by a river. Two women are washing clothes in the water in the lower left foreground and there is a
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Taiwanese Leather Wood Sculpture by Liu Miao Chan
Located in Long Island City, NY
and washing clothes. Comes with the certificate of authenticity. Numbered 4 of 10. Dated 1989. Liu
Category

Vintage 1980s Taiwanese Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Leather, Wood

Smirnov - Russian School 20th Century Oil, A Quiet Evening
Located in Corsham, GB
a kitchen where a woman can be seen washing clothes. A doll in a pram draws the eye in the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

French 19th Century Lessiveuse", Clothes Washing Machine
Located in Round Top, TX
A terrific later 19th century French "Lessiveuse", clothes washing machine. Soundly constructed
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Side Tables

Materials

Copper

19th Century French Oil Painting with Sheep Signed Charles Clair in Ornate Frame
Located in Dallas, TX
scenes and women at work washing clothes or shepherdesses. He regularly exhibited at the Salon des
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Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings

Believed to be 18th Century Spanish Colonial Trough
Located in San Francisco, CA
We believe this to be an 18th century pine trough with trestle base, possibly for washing clothes
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Planters and Jardinieres

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl with Hanging Iron and Stand
Located in Wichita, KS
bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes, and bathing children. Sold with
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Antique 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl with Hanging Iron and Stand
Located in Wichita, KS
bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes, and bathing children. Sold with
Category

Antique 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl with Hanging Iron and Stand
Located in Wichita, KS
bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes, and bathing children. Sold with
Category

Antique 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

19th c. Large Spanish Green Fajalauza Lebrillo Bowl with Hanging Iron and Stand
Located in Wichita, KS
bowl was used for household chores such as cooking, washing clothes, and bathing children. Sold with
Category

Antique 19th Century Spanish Country Decorative Bowls

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

Collection of Swedish wooden barrels from the 18th century
Located in Valby, 84
would like from storage to a big planter or even for hiding away your washing clothes or what ever else
Category

Antique 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antiquities

Materials

Wood

19th Century Primitive Trough
Located in Chicago, IL
from a single weathered log. Once a functional household item, it may have been used for washing
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Antique 19th Century Unknown Primitive Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières

Materials

Wood

Late 1800 s French Faience Jardiniere
Located in Dallas, TX
with hand painted pastoral genre scenes on either side. On one side is a scene of a woman washing
Category

Antique 19th Century French Centerpieces

River Scene with Village Church (Large)
Located in New Orleans, LA
traditional garb is washing clothes at the water's edge, and a group of men are working on a boat. Painting
Category

1920s Romantic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil on Canvas, XVII Century, Landscape with Figures at the River
By Antonio Francesco Peruzzini 1
Located in Milan, IT
vegetation. Along its course, in the foreground, some women are washing clothes. The pictorial features, fast
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17th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Le Vieux Pont - Crepescule, Martigues - Figures in River Landscape by G C Deneux
By Gabriel-Charles Deneux
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
. Another woman in the foreground is washing clothes at the water's edge beside a row boat. The street
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Paysage aux lavandieres - Barbizon Oil, River in Landscape by Hippolyte Delpy
By Hippolyte Camille Delpy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
depicts a view of a landscape with a river in the distance and washerwomen washing clothes and hanging
Category

Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

19th Century American Early Washing Machine with Mangle
Located in Forney, TX
American) hand powered early clothes washing machine. Surmounted by a mangle (wringer) the primitive 19th
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Antique 19th Century Primitive Historical Memorabilia

Materials

Iron

Léon Adolphe Belly, Woodland View With Pond, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
view with a pond and women washing clothes. It’s a gentle portrayal and a far stretch from his grander
Category

19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Funeral Procession (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Folk Art Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
” - various scenes of plantation life including picking cotton, gathering pecans, washing clothes, ceremonial
Category

1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Melrose Plantation (Clementine Hunter Folk Art Painting, auth. by Tom Whitehead)
Located in New Orleans, LA
plantation life including picking cotton, gathering pecans, washing clothes, ceremonial baptisms and funeral
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1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Fight (Clementine Hunter Folk Art Painting, auth. by Tom Whitehead)
Located in New Orleans, LA
” - various scenes of plantation life including picking cotton, gathering pecans, washing clothes, ceremonial
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1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wash Day, Melrose Plantation (Clementine Hunter, authenticated by Tom Whitehead)
Located in New Orleans, LA
cotton, gathering pecans, washing clothes, ceremonial baptisms and funeral scenes. Her resourceful nature
Category

1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Funeral Procession (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Folk Art Painting, Large)
Located in New Orleans, LA
, “marking a picture” - various scenes of plantation life including picking cotton, gathering pecans, washing
Category

1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Playing Cards (Superb Authenticated Clementine Hunter Folk Art Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
plantation life including picking cotton, gathering pecans, washing clothes, ceremonial baptisms and funeral
Category

1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Manuel Cardoso Lima - Contemporary Oil, Mountain Town
Located in Corsham, GB
imposing misty mountain. Figures go about their daily lives, washing their clothes in the water, heading
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Tian Bowl
Located in Wichita, KS
was used for both cooking and serving, as well as washing dishes, clothes, etc. It is also the name of
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Antique 19th Century French Serving Bowls

French Tian (bowl) with Handles
Located in Wichita, KS
Provence region of France. The tian was used for both cooking and serving, as well as washing dishes
Category

Antique 19th Century French Serving Bowls

Earl Kerkam "Self-Portrait No. 4"
By Earl Kerkam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spartan Downtown studio, sleeping on a cot and washing his clothes in a pot on the stove. It had not
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Vintage 1950s American Paintings

Materials

Board

Self Portrait
By Earl Kerkam
Located in Wiscasett, ME
, sleeping on a cot and washing his clothes in a pot on the stove. It had not always been so. In the 1920s he
Category

1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bretagne Women Washing Clothes in River - British Edwardian art oil painting
By Joseph Milner Kite
Located in Hagley, England
. The composition is a group of ten or more women washing laundry in a river. They have their laundry
Category

1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Women Washing Clothes in River - Moret sur-Loing, France 19th cent Impressionist
By Alfred Sisley
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A lovely French Impressionist painting from the 19th century. Painted in the style of Alfred Sisley and Gustave Loiseau. What may be the remnants of a signature can be found in the ...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel, Board

Large French Signed Oil, Lady Washing Clothes on banks of River Seine landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
painting depicts a "lavandiere" washing her clothes on the banks of the Seine, against the lush backdrop of
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Huge 1950 s French Signed Oil Ladies Washing Clothes in River South of France
By André Salomon Le Tropezien
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
La Lavandiere by Andre Salomon le Tropezien (circa 1950) signed lower left oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 24 x 36 inches framed: 33 x 45 inches condition: excellent (one repa...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fine British School 19th Century Oil - Hanging Out the Washing
Located in Corsham, GB
, washing clothes with a mangle. The attractive landscape scene has been well presented in a large ornate
Category

19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Provincial Chinese Washing Stone, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
used by a Qing-dynasty woman for washing clothes and textiles. Used by beating wet fabrics against its
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Pedestals and Columns

Materials

Limestone

19th Century Provincial Chinese Washing Stone
Located in Chicago, IL
used by a Qing-dynasty woman for washing clothes and textiles. Used by beating wet fabrics against its
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Pedestals

Materials

Limestone

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On 1stDibs, there are several options of washing clothes available for sale. A selection of these works in the Contemporary and Impressionist styles can be found today in our inventory. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add washing clothes that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of beige, brown, black, white and more. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Isaac Cruikshank, Salomon Gessner, André Salomon Le Tropezien and Sebastião Salgado are consistently popular. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in oil paint, paint and canvas.

How Much are Washing Clothes?

The average selling price for washing clothes we offer is $2,864, while they’re typically $288 on the low end and $16,000 for the highest priced.
Questions About Washing Clothes
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    Some of them. Versace clothing is well-made with quality fabrics, and whether you can wash your Versace clothes depends on the fabric. Refer to the care label in your Versace pieces, and clean them according to those instructions. On 1stDibs, find authentic Versace pieces from top sellers worldwide.
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    If you want to wash your Balenciaga clothing properly, looking at the care label and following it directly is your best bet. If they can go in the wash, it’s best to use a delicate detergent and a delicate cycle. Drying flat is the best way to get your luxury clothing dry in most situations. Find vintage and contemporary Balenciaga clothing and accessories from some of the world’s top boutiques on 1stDibs.