Portrait of the Painter – (John La Farge) Previous Next


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Date: 1859

Size: 41 x 29 cm

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

Technique: Oil On Panel

This self-portrait, which La Farge painted in October 1859 at his family"s estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, reflects his use of a photograph as a pictorial source; his appreciation of the unmodulated shapes and flattened space of Japanese prints; his reliance on broad tonal masses in the manner of his teachers, Thomas Couture and William Morris Hunt; and his experiments in plein-air landscape painting. The artist portrays himself as a landscapist ready to embark on a painting expedition.

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