Young woman at the toilet (Tizian)
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Young woman at the toilet is a painting by the Italian painter Titian , which was created around 1514–1515 and painted in oil on canvas. The 99 cm × 76 cm work is exhibited in the Louvre . There is a very similar version of the painting in Prague , which also appears to be a signed original, but of lesser quality and in poorer condition.
description
Louvre version
Tizian introduces a sensual young woman who, dreaming, holds her braid in one hand and a jar in the other. She wears a green dress with shoulder straps and a pleated white blouse that is open and bares her left shoulder. A bearded man in a red doublet stands behind her and holds two mirrors for her, one in the front and one in the back. The two figures fill the entire painting. The young woman tilts her head slightly to one side, along with the look of her blue eyes. Pale complexions, bare shoulders, and loose, wavy, blonde hair make her an idealized representation of Venetian beauties of the early 16th century.
Prague version
The woman in the painting in Prague holds her ointment jar differently and the large white sleeves also vary slightly. Titian probably painted the second version after the first before it left his workshop. Both the Paris and the Prague paintings show two mirrors and a jar of ointment, and the Prague painting also has a comb.
interpretation
The pictures could simply depict a hairdresser using two mirrors to show his client what the back of her hair and the front look like, and although the intimacy of the relationship between the two is more than that, the exchange doesn't have to be incorrect. There is little obvious eroticism : the woman's dress is quite casual, but not particularly revealing. The painting could represent a message that is no longer recognized.
The circular opening of her sleeve serves as a formal evocation of the circular mirror that draws the viewer into an interior space rather than reflecting an image on its impenetrable convex surface. One can easily imagine where the deepening of the sleeve leads. The viewer gains more access to the woman than the depicted “floating lover”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Claude Phillips : Titian . Parkstone International, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78042-821-5 , pp. 102 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
- ^ A b c Paul Joannides : Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius . Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-300-08721-5 , pp. 258 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
- ↑ La Femme au miroir. Musée du Louvre, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Markus Rath, Jörg Trempler , Iris Wenderholm : The haptic image: physical image experience in modern times . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-009449-6 , p. 40–41 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).