{"data": {"id": 149386, "accession_number": "1978.43", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Hand Mirror, c. 1900. Designed by F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (French, 1833\u20131914), relief by Auguste Rodin (French, 1840\u20131917), enamel by Alexander Riquet (French), goldsmith work by Alexis Falize (French, 1811\u20131898). Gold, enamel, and ivory; overall: 32.2 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm (12 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, by exchange, 1978.43", "current_location": null, "title": "Hand Mirror", "creation_date": "c. 1900", "creation_date_earliest": 1895, "creation_date_latest": 1905, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France"], "technique": "gold, enamel, and ivory", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Miscellaneous", "measurements": "Overall: 32.2 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm (12 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.322, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "width": 0.161, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "depth": 0.012, "depth_inch": 0, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "cipher engraved on inside top of handle:  \"VITTA\" (in monogram form)", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}, {"inscription": "Cast at bottom of relief:  A Rod - -", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}, {"inscription": "on the plique-a-jour enamel, the date and mark of Bracquemond and \"AR,\" the monogram for Alexandre Riquet", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 304286, "title": "Year in Review: 1978", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).", "opening_date": "1979-02-13T05:00:00"}, {"id": 304384, "title": "Art Nouveau in France", "description": "<i>Art Nouveau in France</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 1-September 1, 1979).", "opening_date": "1979-03-01T05:00:00"}, {"id": 309838, "title": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol", "description": "<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-07-03T04:00:00"}, {"id": 310102, "title": "Art Nouveau in France", "description": "<i>Art Nouveau in France</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-November 27, 1988).", "opening_date": "1988-07-12T04:00:00"}, {"id": 219712, "title": "F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (1833-1914) et les Arts D\u00e9coratifs Du Japonisme \u00e0 l'Art Nouveau", "description": "<i>F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (1833-1914) et les Arts D\u00e9coratifs Du Japonisme \u00e0 l'Art Nouveau</i>. Mus\u00e9e Adrien Dubouch\u00e9, Limoges, France (April 5-June 27, 2005).", "opening_date": "2005-04-05T00:00:00"}, {"id": 194450, "title": "Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique ", "description": "<i>Artistic Luxury: Faberg\u00e9 Tiffany Lalique </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).", "opening_date": "2008-10-19T04:00:00"}, {"id": 230465, "title": "Jewelry by Artists, from Art Nouveau to the Avant-gardes", "description": "<i>Jewelry by Artists, from Art Nouveau to the Avant-gardes</i>. Museu Nacional d' Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (organizer) (October 26, 2010-February 28, 2011).", "opening_date": "2010-10-26T00:00:00"}, {"id": 441598, "title": "Artlens Exhibition 2019", "description": "<i>Artlens Exhibition 2019</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).", "opening_date": "2019-06-11T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Commissioned by Baron J. Vitta, by descent to his heirs", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Heirs of Baron J. Vitta", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "[Cyril Humphris, Ltd., Ferrers Gallery, London, England]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "-July 1978", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "Ralph King [1855-1926] Cleveland Heights, OH, given by exchange to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1978-", "sortorder": 5}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [{"id": 166861, "description": "Design for a Hand Mirror, c. 1900-1902. F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914). Watercolor and black ink with graphite; sheet: 18 x 13.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.); framed: 62 x 45 cm (24 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2009.11.4", "relationship": null}], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The mirror\u2019s relief of Venus may be the only example of Rodin providing an ornament for a small decorative object.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "We often think of art as the work of just one person. In the case of this mirror, its harmonious appearance conceals the number of people involved in its creation. The designer F\u00e9lix Bracquemond was commissioned by wealthy banker Baron Joseph Vitta to create decorative objects for his multiple homes. Bracquemond worked with other artists in making this mirror: well-known sculptor Auguste Rodin created the figure of Venus; artisan Alexandre Riquet fashioned the elaborate enameled decoration; and goldsmiths from Parisian jewelers Falize Fr\u00e8res completed the mirror and its blue translucent frame embedded with yellow, pink, and white flowers. Through close collaboration between patron, designer, and artists, this mirror represents the trend at the end of the 1800s for blending artistic specialties to create a single work of art. <br><br>The CMA\u2019s collection includes Bracquemond\u2019s preparatory drawings for the mirror and Rodin\u2019s carved plaster model for the figure of Venus.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60763642"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1978.43-hand-mirror"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (10/26/2010 - 2/28/2011): \"Jewelry by Artists, from Art Nouveau to the Avant-gardes\", ex. cat. no. 177, p. 178-179.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1978.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3\u201348.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 42, no. 7; Reproduced: Back cover", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613"}, {"citation": "Weisberg, Gabriel P. \u201cBaron Vitta and the Bracquemond/Rodin Hand Mirror.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 8 (November 1979): 297\u2013310.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 297-298, figs. 1-2", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159645"}, {"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P., and Sara Jane Pearman. \u201cFurther Reflections.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 8 (October 1984): 276\u2013279.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 277-279, figs. 4-5", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159879"}, {"citation": "Donley, Gregory M, \"A Discerning Eye\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 39 no. 05, May 1999", "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-05/page/n5"}, {"citation": "Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, Jeannine J Falino. <em>Artistic Luxury: Faberge\u0301 Tiffany Lalique.</em> Cleveland, Ohio:  Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 133; Mentioned: P. 324, no. 8", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.43", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.43/1978.43_web.jpg", "width": "670", "height": "893", "filesize": "379845", "filename": "1978.43_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.43/1978.43_print.jpg", "width": "2550", "height": "3400", "filesize": "5532927", "filename": "1978.43_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.43/1978.43_full.tif", "width": "4080", "height": "5440", "filesize": "66617824", "filename": "1978.43_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Ralph King, by exchange", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": "b2a253353667465aa071f9bd1ba86cf2", "sketchfab_url": "https://sketchfab.com/models/b2a253353667465aa071f9bd1ba86cf2", "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 149386, "creators": [{"id": 5538, "description": "F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (French, 1833\u20131914)", "extent": "designed by", "qualifier": null, "role": "designer", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1833", "death_year": "1914", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": true, "weight": 1}, {"id": 5925, "description": "Auguste Rodin (French, 1840\u20131917)", "extent": "relief by", "qualifier": null, "role": "sculptor", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1840", "death_year": "1917", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": true, "weight": 2}, {"id": 13439, "description": "Alexander Riquet (French)", "extent": "enamel by", "qualifier": null, "role": "enamelist", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": true, "weight": 3}, {"id": 13631, "description": "Alexis Falize (French, 1811\u20131898)", "extent": "goldsmith work by", "qualifier": null, "role": "goldsmith", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1811", "death_year": "1898", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": true, "weight": 4}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1978-08-10T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1895, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1900", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-10-24 08:46:13.337000"}}