The Broken Mirror
| The Broken Mirror | |
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| Artist | Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
| Year | 1762–63 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 56 cm × 45.6 cm (22 in × 18.0 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection, London |
The Broken Mirror (French: Le Miroir brisé) is a 1763 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.[1][2][3] A molaristic allegory, it functions as a parable. While ostensibly it portrays a young woman who has broken a mirror, the chaotic interior and her dress presents her as a careless woman who has lost her virginity despite not being married and now regrets it.[4]
It was one of a number of works Greuze intended to exhibit at the Salon of 1763 at the Louvre in Paris, although it may not have evnded up being displayed.[5] Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired in Rome by the Marquess of Hertford in 1845.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Bailey p.33
- ^ Munhall p.100-101
- ^ Conisbee p.138
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=1&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=0
- ^ Fried p.XV
- ^ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1
Bibliography
[edit]- Bailey, Colin B. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress. Getty Publications, 2000.
- Conisbee, Philip. French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century. National Gallery of Art, 2007.
- Fried, Michael. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Munhall, Edgar. Greuze the Draftsman. Merrell, 2002.
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