Portrait of the Painter

Portrait of the Painter

Portrait of the Painter

Artist:
    John La Farge (American, New York 1835–1910 Providence, Rhode Island)
Date:
    1859
Culture:
    American
Medium:
    Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
    16 1/16 x 11 1/2 in. (40.8 x 29.2 cm)
Classification:
    Paintings
Credit Line:
    Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934

This self-portrait, which La Farge painted in October 1859 at his family's estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, reflects his use of a photograph as a pictorial source; his appreciation of the unmodulated shapes and flattened space of Japanese prints; his reliance on broad tonal masses in the manner of his teachers, Thomas Couture and William Morris Hunt; and his experiments in plein-air landscape painting. The artist portrays himself as a landscapist ready to embark on a painting expedition.

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