Woman with a Mirror
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
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Title:Woman with a Mirror
Artists:Titian
Date:1515
Style:High Renaissance
Genre:genre painting
Medium:oil,canvas
Location:Louvre, Paris, France
Dimensions:93×76 cm
Copyright:Public domain
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.
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.
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 – 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 the MNAC in Barcelona, in the gallery of Prague Castle and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.