(To enlarge the images, right click on them and chose "Open in a new tab") "The Cavalier Ottavio Leoni, the son of Ludovico Leoni, Padovano, was likewise known as Padovano although he was born in Rome. His father desired him to devote to painting and particularly to make portraits "alla macchia", a skill in which …
Tag: Self portrait
Anton Raphael Mengs
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Self-portrait (1774) Oil on canvas (73.5 x 56 cm) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Mengs was described by his contemporary Johann Winckelmann as "the greatest artist of his time and perhaps of succeeding times, reborn like a …
Nicolas de Largillière
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Self-portrait (1711) Oil on canvas (80 x 65 cm) Chateau de Versailles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab" Largillière painted several portraits of himself: in 1699 (Tours, Musee des Beaux-Arts), 1711 (Versailles, Chateau), 1724 (Montpellier, Musee Fabre) and 1729 (Florence, Uffizi). These works …
My Father-in-Law
FRANCOIS TORTEBAT (1621-1690) Portrait of Simon Vouet (1665) Oil on canvas (63 x 52 cm) Chateau de Versailles Quite unlike the many dazzling portraits of worthies shown to their best advantage by flattering regalia, the artist eliminated every single superfluous feature here, in order to concentrate on the sitter's almost hypnotic stare. Using thick paint, he scrupulously described …
A Masterpiece
NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE (1656-1746) Self-Portrait (c. 1726) Oil on canvas (80 x 64 cm) Musée Fabre, Montpellier To enlarge the picture; right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" Largillière, a Parisian educated in Antwerp showed at an early age great aptitudes for painting and was apprenticed to Antoine Goubau (1616-1698). He became a …
Rubens’ Self-Portrait
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) Self-Portrait (1622) Oil on canvas (80 x 60 cm) Australian National Gallery, Canberra To enlarge the picture, right-click on it, then "Open in a new tab" This self-portrait was painted by Rubens in 1622 as a present for his friend, the lawyer and collector Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresec (1580-1637). Rubens did …
Self-portrait
MAURICE QUENTIN DE LA TOUR (1704-1788) Self-portrait (1751) Pastel on paper Amiens, Musee de Picardie To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Maurice Quentin de La Tour showed at a very early age outstanding aptitudes for drawing. At the age of 18, having decided to become an artist, he …
Hogarth’s Portrait
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Self-portrait (1730's) Oil on canvas 54 x 51 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA Hogarth was among the most skilled, financially astute, and patriotic artists of his generation. Much of his subject matter was inspired by his own difficult childhood, marked strongly by his father's confinement to the debtor's …
Husband and Wife
GODFRIED SCHALCKEN (1643-1706) Self-portrait (1679) Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1679) Oil on copper, 41,5 x 30,5 cm Prince of Lichtenstein's Collection, Vaduz To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" (*) (*) The images have been kindly provided by the Princely Collections of the House of Liechtenstein. I recommend …
Old Masters 