Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Self-Portrait
François LePage (French, 1796–1871)
1824
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 51 x 42 x 4.5 cm (20 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 41.3 x 32.8 cm (16 1/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, School of Lyon, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in honor of Henry Hawley
- 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
François LePage belonged to a family of flower painters and worked in the French city of Lyon, which was famous for producing silk, particularly fabric with flower motifs. Flower painting was a specialty associated with the Lyon school of painting, and is a subject that requires both delicacy and dexterity, both of which are highlighted in this small self-portrait.
