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Self-Portrait
Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817)
c. 1790s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 78 x 67 x 7 cm (30 11/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 64.4 x 53.2 cm (25 3/8 x 20 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Lié Louis Périn painted many self-portraits, but rarely ever at full scale. The son of a cloth manufacturer from Rheims, Périn left the countryside for Paris to pursue a career in miniature painting. Although he enjoyed a fast-growing reputation as a miniaturist among Parisian aristocracy, a full-scale self-portrait provided an opportunity to display his skills unhampered by the demands of a commissioned picture or painting in a miniature format.
