Bust-Length Study of a Man
Medium
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions
20 1/16 × 18 1/2 in. (51 × 47 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Wolfe Fund and Wheelock Whitney III Gift, 2022
Accession Number
2022.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PortraitsMen
About the Artist
François-Auguste Biard · 1799–1882
**François-Auguste Biard** (born François Thérèse Biard, 29 June 1799 – 20 June 1882) was a French painter celebrated for his adventurous travels and vivid depictions of distant lands and contemporary life. Born in Lyon, he initially resisted his parents’ wishes for an ecclesiastical career. He began learning to paint at a local wallpaper factory before attending the École des Beaux-Arts in his ho...