# Self-Portrait

- By: Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.334)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1961.334/1961.334_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.