Self-Portrait (c. 1790s): Art, History and Details

Self-Portrait (c. 1790s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817).

The work and its context

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

Lié Louis Périn painted many self-portraits, but rarely ever at full scale. The son of a cloth manufacturer from Rheims, Périn left the countryside for Paris to pursue a career in miniature painting. Although he enjoyed a fast-growing reputation as a miniaturist among Parisian aristocracy, a full-scale self-portrait provided an opportunity to display his skills unhampered by the demands of a commissioned picture or painting in a miniature format.

Object facts

• Title: Self-Portrait
• Date: c. 1790s
• Creator attribution: Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 78 x 67 x 7 cm (30 11/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 64.4 x 53.2 cm (25 3/8 x 20 15/16 in.)
• Collection: P - French 18th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1961.334

Collection credit

Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1962.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962).
• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 9 (1965).
• “Annual Report for 1965.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 6 (1966).

View the collection record

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