Mirror

Édouard Manet
Before the Mirror
1876
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Salt Cellar shaped as Fortification
15th century
agate bowl mounted in gold
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1952
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anna Atkins
Enteromorpha intestinalis
ca. 1853
cyanotype
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sylvia Gosse
Self Portrait reflected in a Mirror
1918
watercolor and graphite on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous French Makers
Cup
ca. 1650
brecciated jasper with silver-gilt mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1953
oil and glue on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anna Atkins
Ptelea trifoliata
ca. 1845
cyanotype
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Claes Oldenburg
Side-view Mirror:
Proposed Colossal Monument for End of Navy Pier, Chicago
1967
watercolor and crayon on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Bowl
ca. 1655
sardonyx with enameled-gold mount
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1955
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anna Atkins
 Rhodomenia polycarpa
ca. 1853
cyanotype
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Matt Saunders
Hanna and Mirror
2003
oil on plastic
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Cup
ca. 1685
agate with silver-gilt stem of harpies
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1955
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anna Atkins
Spiraea aruncus (Tyrol)
ca. 1851-54
cyanotype
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fairfield Porter
The Mirror
1966
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Maude Stanley to Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley                                                                 

[describing preparations to attend the wedding of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky to the Crown Prince of Prussia]

                                                                            Dover Street, January 22nd, 1858

Dear Grandmamma,

    There has certainly been a great deal to do in the clothing line, all nearly settled now.  Mama has had to imagine so many different dresses & colours: a red with black lace for the ball, a lilac with white lace for the wedding, a white with red velvet bows for the concert, & blue brocade for the drawing room.  My gowns have required less consideration being more easily concocted  . . .   

– from The Stanleys of Alderney, edited by Nancy Mitford (1939)