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| Self-Portrait |
Artist:Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (French, Paris 1748–1813 Paris)
Date:1795
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:51 1/2 × 39 in. (131 × 99 cm)
Frame: 60 13/16 × 48 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (154.5 × 122.5 × 12 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Private collection
Monsieur Le Brun, trained as a painter, was the most successful art dealer in late eighteenth-century Paris. In 1776, he married Elisabeth Louise Vigée, becoming her promoter. The artist and their daughter Julie parted from him at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789; later, the couple divorced but remained in contact. Monsieur Le Brun showed this portrait of himself as a well-placed, aspiring expert and art historian at the Salon of 1795.
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