Not only does the picture allude to the myth of Venus’s son Cupid who fell in love with a mortal it is also a play upon the French word for a mirror – psyche. More accurately psyche describes a cheval-glass or tall mirror in a frame that can be tilted. The subject becomes the contemplation of her own image by an adolescent woman. The ambience is one of soft, non-voyeuristic , sensuality in contrast to a woman painted to provide a male spectator with a female object onto which he can project sexual desire. The innocent scene created by Morisot becomes an antithesis to those male artists who encourage the spectator to view a scene through the eyes of the flaneur.
Later, in 1886, Morisot painted In the Dining Room, see Figure 8, which was shown in the eighth and final exhibition. The picture shows a household servant and employs a rapid and bold painterly technique, sketch-like, almost hastily directed onto the canvas. Again, the picture shows Morisot’s tendency to work
Not only does the picture allude to the myth of Venus’s son Cupid who fell in love with a mortal it is also a play upon the French word for a mirror – psyche. More accurately psyche describes a cheval-glass or tall mirror in a frame that can be tilted. The subject becomes the contemplation of her own image by an adolescent woman. The ambience is one of soft, non-voyeuristic , sensuality in contrast to a woman painted to provide a male spectator with a female object onto which he can project sexual desire. The innocent scene created by Morisot becomes an antithesis to those male artists who encourage the spectator to view a scene through the eyes of the flaneur.Later, in 1886, Morisot painted In the Dining Room, see Figure 8, which was shown in the eighth and final exhibition. The picture shows a household servant and employs a rapid and bold painterly technique, sketch-like, almost hastily directed onto the canvas. Again, the picture shows Morisot’s tendency to work
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