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Self-Portrait

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun French

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Monsieur Le Brun, trained as a painter, was the most successful art dealer in late eighteenth-century Paris. In 1776, he married Elisabeth Louise Vigée, becoming her promoter. The artist and their daughter Julie parted from him at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789; later, the couple divorced but remained in contact. Monsieur Le Brun showed this portrait of himself as a well-placed, aspiring expert and art historian at the Salon of 1795.

Self-Portrait, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (French, Paris 1748–1813 Paris), Oil on canvas

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