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Self-Portrait
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About this work
Lié Louis Périn painted many self-portraits, but rarely ever at full scale. The son of a cloth manufacturer from Rheims, Périn left the countryside for Paris to pursue a career in miniature painting. Although he enjoyed a fast-growing reputation as a miniaturist among Parisian aristocracy, a full-scale self-portrait provided an opportunity to display his skills unhampered by the demands of a commissioned picture or painting in a miniature format.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSelf-Portrait, c. 1790s. Lié Louis Périn (French, 1753–1817). Oil on canvas; framed: 78 x 67 x 7 cm (30 11/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 64.4 x 53.2 cm (25 3/8 x 20 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carrie Moss Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle, 1961.334
