Reflecting

John Fox
Reflected Still Life
ca. 1975
oil on canvas
private collection

Karl Knathes
Marble Mantel
1966
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joan Brown
The Vanity
1973
enamel on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous French Photographer
Mirror reflecting Camera
ca. 1910
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Charles Thurston Thompson
Venetian Mirror circa 1700 from the collection of John Webb
1853
albumen silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous Dutch Painter
Truth presenting a Mirror to the Vanities of the World
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Bechtle
Cookie Jar
1964
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Fernand Léger
The Mirror
1925
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Roy Lichtenstein
Interior with Mobile
1992
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Mirror
ca. 1740
chimneypiece mirror framed in giltwood
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Makers
Mirror
ca. 1660-61
vanity mirror mounted in silver with royal crest
(originally the property of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York)
Musée du Louvre

Charles Thurston Thompson
Late Seventeenth-century Silver Repoussé Mirror
1853
albumen silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Robin Philipson
Odalisque in Mirror
1962
oil on board
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Toussaint Dubreuil
Hyante et Climène à leur toilette
(illustration to La Franciade by Pierre de Ronsard)
before 1602
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Sylvia Gosse
Pair of Gloves before a Mirror
1913
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Laura Knight
Make-up
1924
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Pablo Picasso
La Toilette
1906
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

from Prometheus Unbound

            Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions

            In music's most serene dominions;

Catching the winds that fan that happy heaven.

            And we sail on, away, afar, 

            Without a course, without a star,

But, by the instinct of sweet music driven;

            Till through Elysian garden islets

            By thee, most beautiful of pilots,

            Where never mortal pinnace glided,

            The boat of my desire is guided:

Realms where the air we breathe is love,

Which in the winds and on the waves doth move,

Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)