The Broken Mirror (French: Le Miroir brisé) is a 1763 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

[1][2][3] A molaristic allegory, it functions as a parable.

While ostensibly it portrays a young woman who has broken a mirror, the chaotic interior and her dress presents her as a careless woman who has lost her virginity despite not being married and now regrets it.

[4] It was one of a number of works Greuze intended to exhibit at the Salon of 1763 at the Louvre in Paris, although it may not have evnded up being displayed.

[5] Today it is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired in Rome by the Marquess of Hertford in 1845.