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Description: | Bust-length self-portrait of the artist depicted in a domestic setting with a still life arrangement. He is seen in profile to the right, with his back facing the left edge of the painting and his head turned in three-quarter view towards the viewer. Depicted as a youthful man, he has brown hair and beard and wears a jacket with white shirt and blue tie. Beside him is a table or sideboard with a still-life arrangement comprising of a bottle of white wine, a rose, a lemon and two oranges, and an oriental ginger jar at the extreme right edge, behind which are the leafy stems of a plant. Hung on the wall above the still-life composition, although only partially visible, is the bottom edge of a painting in an Impressionist style. Behind he artist is a shadowy doorway.
medium: Oil on linen
Self-portrait by Pierre A. Valette, 1917 (circa), (1938.407). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.4681 | Go to resource |
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