Woman with Mirror (after Titian)

Artist Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (French, 1772 - 1855)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1819

DimensionsFrame: 27 1/4 × 23 × 4 in. (69.2 × 58.4 × 10.2 cm)

MediumHard paste porcelain, enamels, gold

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange

Object number

2023.1

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 32

Label TextWhat gives this painting its glossy, radiant quality? Instead of the more common canvas or wood, it was painted on a sheet of porcelain. The image is a copy after a painting by the Italian artist Titian from about 1516, today at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Over time the colors of Titian’s painting had faded, which is not unusual for a painting of its age. The preservation of paintings was a concern for artists and art administrators in the early 1800s. Painting on porcelain had the distinct advantage that colors would never fade because the pigments would form a permanent bond with the ceramic when fired in a kiln. Marie-Victoire Jaquotot was one of the most accomplished and successful porcelain painters and ran her own workshop where she specialized in copies after well-known paintings. She also taught other women the art of porcelain painting.Exhibition HistoryMusée royal, France,Exposition des porcelaines de la manufacture royale de Sevres, 1820.

Salon exhibition, 1822, no. 726. [lent by the duchesse de Berry]