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Self-Portrait
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
1857
- Medium
- Black chalk, with charcoal and stumping, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted to gray board
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 36.5 × 31.2 cm (14 3/8 × 12 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 45.5 × 43 cm (17 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Tertiary support: 50.3 × 43 cm (19 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), 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
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Among Fantin-Latour’s portraits, the most penetrating are those he made of himself. This is an early attempt, created when he was just 21 years old, and may reflect the influence of Edgar Degas, whom he had met just two years previously. As with many young artists, the most available model could be found in the mirror, fostering many such brooding images bursting with potential.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
