Artwork Title: Self Portrait

Self Portrait, 1838

Michel Dumas

Michel Dumas is one of the many artists from Lyon who started their training in the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The painter presents himself wearing a typical artist’s cap, but also an elegant robe hardly conceivable as suitable work clothing. In the background we see the verso of a painting. Perhaps it is his best-known work Abraham and Hagar (1838). Scholars suspect this may be the case because the Lyon-born art collector Lodoïx Monnier, Dumas’s most loyal patron, purchased Abraham and Hagar and was also the first owner of this self-portrait. (http://www.i-am-here.eu/en/gallery.html)
Uploaded on Oct 2, 2016 by Suzan Hamer

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