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Venus with a Mirror
Original price was: $518.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Titian
Venus turns to meet her own reflection in this c. 1555 work by Titian, now offered as a hand-painted replica painting in oil on canvas.
Description
Description
A half-length Venus fills most of the canvas, turning her head to meet her own reflection in a small mirror held up by a winged Cupid at her side. Pale flesh catches warm light against a dark ground, while a second cupid figure settles a cloak or wrap at her shoulder. The gaze of Venus does not meet the viewer; it rests on the glass, and that small redirection carries the entire composition, built around the idea of this Venus with a Mirror reproduction before a single fact of attribution matters.
About Venus with a Mirror Reproduction
Titian painted the canvas around 1555, late in a career already defined by the rich, saturated colour that set Venetian painting apart from the drier manner practiced in Florence and Rome. The pose draws on antique sculpture, recalling the Venus de Medici and the Capitoline Venus, figures Titian had studied closely as his interest in classical statuary deepened through the 1550s. Flesh is built from layered pinks and ochres rather than outlined and filled, so that the shoulder and the curve of the back seem to hold their own warmth. Blonde hair is laid in with loose, confident strokes that catch light differently from the smoother handling of the skin beneath.
The mirror does more than hold a reflection. It turns a nude study into a meditation on vanity and self-regard, a reading art historians have returned to for centuries, since the same figure can be taken as an ideal of beauty or as a woman caught in the act of admiring herself. Titian leaves both readings open, resolving neither, which is part of why the picture has held attention so long after it left the easel.
The ByMuseum version of this work is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, built up stroke by stroke by a trained painter working from high-resolution reference images rather than printed onto canvas. The palette is matched passage by passage, from the warm shadow under the arm to the cooler grey of the mirror frame, and the surface carries real impasto where the original paint sits thickest. Collectors who want a replica painting rather than a print will find the brushwork, not a flattened image of it, on the canvas that reaches them.
The hand-painted reproduction
Living with this Venus with a Mirror reproduction on a wall means the light shifts with the room across a day, and the angle of her turned head reads differently depending on where you stand. Details that are easy to miss on a screen, the soft modelling under the chin, the particular grey-green in the mirror glass, start to surface the longer it hangs.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in multiple sizes to suit any wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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