# Self-Portrait

- By: François LePage (French, 1796–1871)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in honor of Henry Hawley
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.17)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2004.17/2004.17_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.