Self-Portrait (1824): Art, History and Details

Self-Portrait (1824) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is François LePage (French, 1796–1871).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Self-Portrait
• Date: 1824
• Creator attribution: François LePage (French, 1796–1871)
• Culture: France, School of Lyon, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 51 x 42 x 4.5 cm (20 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 41.3 x 32.8 cm (16 1/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2004.17

A detail from the museum

In this self-portrait, Le Page is painting his specialty: flowers.

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in honor of Henry Hawley

View the collection record

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