"[In this work] he marked the year 1890 with a really important advance in his art as etcher,...here his own linear technique seems to be definitely established with its independence of outline. It is a charmingly homely scene: the happy young artist at work, his eyes intent on the mirror in front of him to catch the reflection of himself, with his wife standing companionably at his elbow, her eyes focussed where ..." http://surfacefragments.blogspot.nl/2012/10/the-etchings-of-anders-zorn.html