Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
plate: 10 13/16 x 7 1/16 in. (27.5 x 18 cm) sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (47 x 32.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009
Accession Number
2009.468.19
Tags
Art Historical Context
This engraving, titled *Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit*, presents an 18th-century European artist depicting himself in distinctive Eastern dress. Created as a first-state print measuring roughly 27.5 by 18 cm in the plate, the work results from collaboration among engraver Carlo Gregori, draftsman Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, and the primary artist Jean Étienne Liotard. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, it belongs to a tradition of self-portraiture that explores identity through costume. The choice of Turkish attire reflects the era’s widespread ...
About the Artist
Carlo Gregori|Giovanni Domenico Campiglia|Jean Etienne Liotard (Italian|Italian) · 1692 |1719 –1768 |1759
Italian, Lucca, 1692–1768|Italian, Florence 1719–1759 Florence