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Self-Portrait

Henri Fantin-Latour

ca. 1858

Medium

Oil on canvas, laid down on canvas

Tags

Men Self-portraits

Dimensions

Overall 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (26.4 x 21.3 cm); original canvas 10 x 7 7/8 in. (25.4 x 20 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1995

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Henri Fantin-Latour

1836–1904 • France

His work is characterized by a depiction of modern life and contemporary scenes. He was interested in light effects, although in a style different from Manet and the Impressionists. From 1864 he began exhibiting group portraits depicting avant-garde painters and writers. Comment on works: still life, Portraits

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