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Self-Portrait
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdainec. 1778
- Attribution
- Jean Pierre Norblin De La Gourdaine French, 1745-1830
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and engraving in black on ivory wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/plate: 13.7 × 14.9 cm (5 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 14.6 × 15.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment
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Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine was a French artist who was primarily active in Poland. This searing Self-Portrait, made when the artist was 33, suggests the enormous influence of Rembrandt's chiaroscuro drypoints and in particular his Self-Portrait at a Window of 1648 (available for viewing upon appointment in the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings).
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