- Title:
- Self Portrait
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- Fantin-Latour painted a number of self portraits in the years 1854-61 which were characterised by having summary backgrounds or no settings at all. In this example, one edge of an unframed painting is visible on the right, which has been tentatively identified as the portrait of Fantin-Latour's sister Marie (Birmingham City Art Gallery), which was rejected by the jury of the 1859 Salon.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- On loan from Tate: Bequeathed by Hans Velten 1931
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 31.40
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25.40
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated
- Material:
- Oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- 1860
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1860
- Date - latest:
- 1860
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Object production person:
- Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour
- Person's birth date:
- 1836
- Person's death date:
- 1904
- Other number:
- L706
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0D7P-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L706
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- N04581
- Other number type:
- Lender Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-011K-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- l2706
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- realist
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 763
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/bfab5a38-c659-3319-8075-ba47f7516be8
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/bfab5a38-c659-3319-8075-ba47f7516be8, National Gallery, CC BY
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