Self-Portrait
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 41.3 × 32.8 cm · framed: 51 × 42 × 4.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in honor of Henry Hawley
Accession Number
2004.17
Tags
male
About this artwork
François LePage belonged to a family of flower painters and worked in the French city of Lyon, which was famous for producing silk, particularly fabric with flower motifs. Flower painting was a specialty associated with the Lyon school of painting, and is a subject that requires both delicacy and dexterity, both of which are highlighted in this small self-portrait.