Self-portrait as a faun and four head studies

1915–20?

Not on view

A member of the Parisian avant-garde throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Anquetin turned to a more traditional practice in 1894, following a visit to Holland with his closest friend the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He became a fanatical admirer of Rubens and his study of the seventeenth-century Flemish master’s work possibly led him to the motif of the faun or satyr. Rubens made numerous paintings featuring the Greek gods Pan and Silenus. Anquetin adopted the guise of the faun, with and without horns, in many of his self-portraits.

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Title: Self-portrait as a faun and four head studies
Artist: Louis Anquetin (French, Etrépagny 1861–1932 Paris)
Sitter: Louis Anquetin (French, Etrépagny 1861–1932 Paris)
Date: 1915–20?
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/2 in. × 8 in. (29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schlossberg, 2019
Object Number: 2019.164.2
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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