Self-Portrait at Seventeen
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper; laid down
Dimensions
image: 15.6 x 12.6 cm (6 1/8 x 4 15/16 in.) plate (lithograph stone): 22.3 x 15.9 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 34.6 x 27.7 cm (13 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1995.47.76
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...