Woman with a Mirror

Woman with a Mirror
Artist Titian
Year c. 1515[1]
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 99 cm × 76 cm (39 in × 30 in)
Location Musée du Louvre, Paris

Woman with a Mirror (French: La Femme au miroir) is a painting by Titian, dated to c. 1515 and now in the Musée du Louvre.

History

It is known to have been in the Gonzaga family's collection in Mantua from which it was bought by Charles I of England. After Charles' execution, it was sold off and purchased by Louis XIV of France for the Palace of Versailles.

The Washington variant, usually ascribed to Titian's studio.

Several attempts have been made to identify the main female figure – these have included Titian's lover, Alfonso d'Este's lover Laura Dianti, or Federico Gonzaga's lover Isabella Boschetti. None of these theories fit the date ascribed to the painting through analysis of its style, which is 1512–15, when the courts of Mantua and Ferrara were first becoming interested in Titian. Dianti was painted by Titian in a portrait of 1523. She is probably just a model who appears in other paintings[2] – the same woman with frizzy reddish blonde hair appears in a series of paintings from around the same time (including the Flora at the Uffizi, the Vanity in Munich, the Salome in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, the Violante and the Young woman in a black dress in Vienna) as well as several Madonnas and the clothed figure in Sacred and Profane Love. As happened with the 'Bella' series, it was still customary for the artist's workshop to create similar works with variations from the same studies if not from the same cartoon.

Many versions of the work are known, equal in quality to the original but not as large. The best are in Museu in Barcelona, in the gallery of Prague Castle and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Notes

  1. "La Femme au miroir ". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. Corriere della Sera, 2 December 2010 – Supplemento "Eventi Mostre"

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