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On mirrors, tables and walls (and yes, the girls too); but now in the context(s)
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The broader (European) context
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And more narrow Dutch context
Mirrors in the works by:
Frans Hals
Pieter Codde
Caspar Netscher
Gabriël Metsu
Frans van Mieris
Pieter de Hooch
Cornelis de Man
&
Pieter Janssens Elinga
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The siege (and fall) of Antwerp in 1585
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Frans Hals (1582 – 1666)
Self-portrait (c.1630)
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Portrait of a Dutch Family (1630)
No mirrors !
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Pieter Codde (1599 – 1678)
Self-portrait (c.1630)
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Cavaliers and Ladies (1633)
Table mirror set
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Sebastien Stoskopff - Vanity (c.1630s)
A beauty set?
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Woman combing her hair in front of a mirror (с.1625)
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Woman at her toilet (1630)
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Woman holding a mirror (1625)
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What is the meaning of that mirror?
She holds the mirror, not look at it
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(presumably) Self-portrait (c.1675)
Caspar Netscher (1639 – 1684)
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The visit (c. 1658) (after Gerard ter Borch’s Paternal Admonition)
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Lady at her toilette (c.1670)
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Young woman with a magnifying glass (?) (1667)
A magnifying glass – or a medallion of her future husband?
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Venus with Cupid (??)(c.1660s)
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Girl Standing before a Mirror (1668)
Mirror is a symbol of virginity – or a readiness to part with it?
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Rembrandt - Young woman trying earrings (1654)
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Portrait of a lady at her toilette, attended by a negro page with a dish of fruit
Or a bride with large dowry?
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A lady washing her hands (1657) … or preparing to be ‘consumed’ ?
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What is the meaning of this whole scene?
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Mother combing her son (1669)
Does she play with a mirror? Or with the symbol of her future marriage?
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Gabriël Metsu (1629-1667)
(presumably) Self-portrait (c.1652)
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Lady at the mirror (1667)
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Not one, but two mirrors!
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A Man Visiting a Woman Washing Her Hands (c. 1662)
…but the mirror is turned away.
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The Intruder (c. 1660)
…she actually doesn't’t mind to see (and to show him her ‘ mirror’)
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Woman reading a letter (1662)
Wall mirror, decorated with a ribbon
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A Hunter Visiting a Woman at her Toilet ( c. 1661)
Is her mirror ready to be shown?
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A Woman at her Mirror (1657)
One of a very few mirrors in these paintings that is actually ‘used‘
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Lady at a Virginal
Why would they cover the mirror? Only to protect from the sun?
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Frans van Mieris (1635-1681)
Self-portrait (c.1667)
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Woman in her bedroom with a dog (1670)
Mirror migrates from a table…
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Woman before the mirror (c.1670)
… to a wall – creating an entirely different way to look at herself!
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Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684)
Self-portrait (c.1655)
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Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed (or The Maidservant) (1667)
Mirror firmly occupies the wall
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Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting (1663)
Mirror shrinks to a beam of light
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The bedroom (1658)
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One mirror, or two?
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And is the right one actually the mirror? Jan de Beer - The Birth of the Virgin (1520)
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Cornelis de Man (1621-1704)
Self-portrait (c.1670s)
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The Music Lesson (c.1670)
Mirror on a wall allows more interesting situations
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Geographers at Work (c.1675)
Liberating mirrors from a ‘female-only’ status
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Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623-1684)
Perspective boxes
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3D models of the Dutch houses of Golden Age
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Interior with a painter, his wife, and a maid (1676)
Still two different mirrors in a living room
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Interior with seated husband, his wife, and a maid (1670)
Gradually a table mirror migrates to another place
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Reading woman (1668) Maid in a Dutch house (1655) Wall mirrors will
lose the tables underneath
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One simple conclusion is that during the Golden Age the mirrors transformed from ‘ table gadgets only’ to hybrid formats, including wall mirrors, with different patterns of use.
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The second transformation is more elusive: mirrors seemingly lost their symbolic connotation of a sexual (matrimonial) marker, digressing to a merely functional gadget.
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