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Frederick Carl Frieseke - Yellow Tulips (c.1912)

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Tony Wong - Peeping Tom (c.1980s)

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William Orpen - The Swinton Family (1901)

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Susan Herbert - After Edouard Manet's Nana (1992)

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Arturo Ricci - Musical party (c.1880s)

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Charles Haigh-Wood - The Finishing Touch (aka Preparing for the Ball) (c.1896)

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José Malhoa - O Fado (1910)

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Rik Wouters - Portrait of Madam Giroux-Groeninge (1912)

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Rudolf Ernst - The Harem Bath (c.1890s)

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Jean-Marc Nattier - Madame Marsollier and Her Daughter (1749) Madame Marsollier was the daughter of M. de Leu, a procurator for King Louis XV's royal forests. She was married to a wholesale silk dealer who became the King's secretary, thanks to her father's patronage. Her social aspirations, which stood in stark contrast to her husband's less prestigious line of work, earned her the mocking nickname 'La Duchesse de Velours' (The Duchess of Velvet).

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Frederick Carl Frieseke - At the Mirror (1922)

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André Brasilier - Le miroir en Irlande (1979)

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Marianna Rothen - Mirror, Mirror (2017)

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Edgar Degas - Portrait of Mrs Ducros (c. 1857-58) For a long time, I believed that the first depiction of a mirror appeared in Degas’s famous painting Portrait of the Bellelli Family, created in 1859-60. However, it turns out that the small Portrait of Mrs. Ducros, which shows her standing at a mirror, might have been painted a year or two earlier.

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Another pastel by Edgar Degas from the same series, At the Café des Ambassadeurs (c. 1883). These pastels were always quite small, approximately A4 in size.

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Amusingly, this pastel by Edgar Degas is also a piece of 'mirror art.' Officially known as Le Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs, it was created around 1876. Degas made several versions of this work, initially printing a monotype and then adding color with pastels.

Des Ambassadeurs was a famous Parisian restaurant located in the Hôtel de Crillon. Like many such establishments, it had an outdoor cafe equipped with a stage for music and performances - a concept known as café-chantant or café-concert.

The picture below provides an idea of what this place looked like. The background panels of this particular pavilion were made of mirrors, following the fashion of the time. Thus, in this and a few other pastels by Degas, we see the reflections of the lights in these mirrors.

-Cafe Concert - At Les Ambassadeurs-

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Giorgio Vasari - Cosimo de' Medici Studies the Taking of Siena (1563), a large ceiling panel in the Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Cosimo's studies and actions are guided by the virtues of Prudence, shown with her main attributes, a mirror and a snake, and Fortitude, who is depicted leaning on a pillar.