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,
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.
The wingèd wonder of all Faery Land.
– W.B. Yeats (1885)