Toilet Mirror
Also titled Toiletspiegel
Louis Royer (Mechelen, 1793–1868)
Joseph-Germain Dutalis (Brussels, 1780–1852)
1828 - 1829
- Medium
- looking glasses, gilding (material), silver (metal), amalgam
- Classification
- mirror
- Dimensions
- height 87 cm x width 118 cm x depth 25.7 cm x weight 58.3 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
When Princess Marianne married, her father King William I gifted her a magnificent toilet crafted in the Empire style, with figures based on antiquity. For this commission, the king engaged the best artisans in the southern Netherlands at the time: the goldsmith Dutalis in Brussels and the sculptor Royer from Mechelen. The set comprised a jewellery box, several gilded boxes, and this mirror as a showpiece.
