Thursday, October 10, 2024

Ablutions and Adornments - II

Marcantonio Raimondi
Apollo with Mirror
ca. 1500-1510
drawing
Národní Galerie, Prague

Paris Bordone
Young Woman at her Toilette
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Adriaen van de Venne
Cavalier at his Toilette
1631
oil on panel (grisaille)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Rembrandt
Woman at her Toilette
ca. 1632-33
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Pier Francesco Cittadini
Toilette of Venus
ca. 1645-60
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Gerard ter Borch the Younger
Woman seated at her Toilette
ca. 1657
oil on panel
Leiden Collection, New York

Jacob de Wit
Putti with Mirrors
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Michele Rocca
Toilette of Venus
ca. 1750
oil on canvas
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Lady Dressing
ca. 1780-90
drawing
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Cletofonte Preti
Toilette
1866
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Henri Fantin-Latour
La Toilette
ca. 1875
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gunnar Berndtson
The Mirror
1889
oil on panel
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Theo van Rysselberghe
Model before a Mirror
ca. 1907
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Walt Kuhn
Girl with Mirror
1928
oil on canvas
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Max Beckmann
Dressing Room
1946
oil on canvas
Kunsthaus, Zürich

Wilfred Avery
Figure Undressing
1956
oil on board
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

 from The Island of Statues

I passed by many caves of dripping stone,
And heard each unseen Echo on her throne,
Lone regent of the woods, deep muttering,
And then new murmurs came new uttering
In song, from goblin waters swaying white,
Mocking with patient laughter all the night
Of those vast woods; and then I saw the boat,
Living, wide-wingèd, on the waters float.
Strange draperies did all her sides adorn,
And the waves bowed before it like mown corn,
The wingèd wonder of all Faery Land.

– W.B. Yeats (1885)