Showing posts with label Eva Gonzalès. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eva Gonzalès. Show all posts

Monday 14 October 2024

#263: Your Psyche

A full length-mirror on a wooden stand. 

Carved into the frame above the mirror is the following text:

Search for yourself.  Your true self.  

“So much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.” - George Eliot.




Gonzalès, Eva (about 1869-70) The Full-Length Mirror (La Psyché) [Oil on canvas]. National Gallery, London.

Jones, Jonathan (2024) Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/08/national-gallery-top-five-five-masterpieces-van-gogh-blooms (Accessed: 9th May 2024).