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Self-portrait

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Description: Self-portrait

TitleSelf-portrait

Creator nameRaffaëlli, Jean-François

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1879

Object typePainting

MaterialsPastel on cardboard

Dimensions54 × 38 cm

LocationVan Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Accession numberp1074V2000

SubjectsSelf-portraits, FrenchArtists--PortraitsRealism in artPainting, French--19th century

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Chapter Twelve: Framing the Debate

Description: The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity

The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity

Nineteenth-century practice was to varnish paintings at the very last minute, when the work was already hanging in the exhibition: oil paintings had to be left the maximum time possible to dry before the varnish was applied. The vernissage, varnishing day – the day before the exhibition opened to the public – was an institution during...

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2000 Anthea Callen

Related print edition pages: pp.191-216

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00125.015

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Chapter subject tags:Impressionism (Art)--FrancePicture frames and framingPainting, French--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--History--19th centuryArt criticism--France--History--19th century

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