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Self-Portrait

1795
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Self-Portrait
  • Artist: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (French, Paris 1748–1813 Paris)
  • Date: 1795
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 39 in. (131 × 99 cm)
    Frame: 60 13/16 × 48 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (154.5 × 122.5 × 12 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Private collection
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings