Self-Portrait
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 64.4 × 53.2 cm · framed: 78 × 67 × 7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle
Accession Number
1961.334
Tags
male
About this artwork
Lié Louis Périn painted many self-portraits, but rarely ever at full scale. The son of a cloth manufacturer from Rheims, Périn left the countryside for Paris to pursue a career in miniature painting. Although he enjoyed a fast-growing reputation as a miniaturist among Parisian aristocracy, a full-scale self-portrait provided an opportunity to display his skills unhampered by the demands of a commissioned picture or painting in a miniature format.