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Self-Portrait with a Visor, c. 1776
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin |
| Spatial Coverage | France |
| Temporal Coverage | 1771-1781 |
| Description | Over a century after its creation, the French novelist Marcel Proust said of Jean-Siméon Chardin's audacious self-portrait, “This old oddity is so intelligent, so crazy . . . above all, so much of an artist.” In a fitting finale to a long, successful career as a painter of still lifes and genre scenes, Chardin turned in his last decade to a new medium, pastel, and to a new subject matter, portraits (primarily self-portraits). Eye problems arising from lead-based oil paint poisoning were the partial cause of this dramatic change. Of his thirteen extant pastel self-portraits, the most famous are versions of the example seen here, with the casually dressed, aging artist in his studio. A virtuoso colorist, the septuagenarian here revealed a joyously free stroke and palette. Nonetheless, the construction of the figure is solid and rigorous, adding to his powerful presence. This composition was created at the same time as a portrait of the artist's wife for the 1775 Salon (Musée du Louvre, Paris). A year later, Chardin—with greater daring—replicated the pair. These later portraits were separated for almost two hundred years, until they were reunited in the collection of the Art Institute. [Portrait of a man wearing glasses, pink and white scarf, and blue visor.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Pastel Pastels (crayons) Drawing (image-making) Laid Paper Crayons Drawings (visual Works) Prints and Drawings Glasses Fashion Portraits Paper (fiber Product) Artworks Drawing and Watercolor |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
| Object Type | Drawing |
