Cleveland Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

François LePage

Date

1824

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

France, School of Lyon, 19th century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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