Self-Portrait
Medium
Red and brown chalk, heightened with white on tan paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 11 7/8 in. (46.4 × 30.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gift, in honor of James Draper, 2014
Accession Number
2014.604
Tags
MenSelf-portraits
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux · 1827–1875
Carpeaux's exuberant work was a decisive break from Neoclassical art. He won the Prix de Rome in 1854 and received many portrait bust commissions from the court. His most famous sculpture group is 'La Danse' (1869) made for the Paris Opéra. So bold is its message of bacchanalian revelry that it was vandalized in protest. French artist.