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) |
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The Broken Mirror (French: Le Miroir brisé) is an oil on canvas genre painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, from 1762-1763.[1][2][3] It is held at the Wallace Collection, in London.[4]
History and description
A moralistic 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.[5]
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 ended up being displayed.[6] Today it is in the Wallace Collection, in London, having been acquired in Rome by the Marquess of Hertford in 1845.[7]
References
- ^ Bailey p.33
- ^ Munhall p.100-101
- ^ Conisbee p.138
- ^ Wallace Collection
- ^ Wallace Collection
- ^ Fried p.XV
- ^ Wallace Collection
Bibliography
- 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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