Self-Portrait
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| Author: Anne-Louis
Girodet |
| Portraiture, Painting, Oil on canvas, 59x46 cm |
| Origin: France, Early 19th
century |
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Girodet was one of Jacques-Louis David's most talented and
beloved pupils. In 1789 he received the Prix de Rome and set off
for Italy, where he was to spend five years. The Italian journey
led the artist to break with the classicizing approach he had
learned from his teacher and to form his own individual style, a
style which allows us to see Girodet as a precursor of Romanticism.
This self-portrait has none of the traditional attributes of the
artist's profession usually found in such paintings - the brushes,
palette and easel. Girodet presented himself in prosaic, homely
attire, yet nonetheless in a state of creative illumination. The
precise depiction of the artist's external appearance is combined
with a convincing representation of his own emotional state, the
half-open lips and intense, reflective gaze expressing dynamic
inner workings of the mind and soul.
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| Style: Neo-Classicism |
| Source of entry:
via the State Museum Fund from the Gorchakov collection, St
Petersburg, 1923 |
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