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At the Bulgarian bar i said I’d never go to again. Why life?
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Baron Joseph Ducreux, June 26 1735 — 1802
was a French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver. Born in Nancy, Ducreux may have trained with his father, who was also a painter. Ducreux went to Paris in 1760, and trained as the only student of pastelist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, who specialized in portraiture. In terms of Ducreux’s oil technique, Jean-Baptiste Greuze also served as an important influence as his instructor.
Ducreux also made several well-known self-portraits in the late 1780s, including one in which he painted himself in the middle of a large yawn (which currently hangs in the Getty Center) and another of himself guffawing and pointing at the viewer (which hangs in the Louvre). As evidenced by these self-portraits, Ducreux attempted to break free from the constraints of traditional portraiture. Interested in physiognomy, which is based on the belief that the study and judgment of a person’s outer appearance, primarily the face, reflects their character or personality, Ducreux attempted to capture the personality of his subjects –as well as his own- through his warm and individualistic works. Le Discret (ca. 1790), for example, is the portrait of a man asking for silence. His expression is timorous, his finger is pressed against his mouth in alarm as he silently demands discretion or prudence.
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I had to go dig through all of my mother’s photo albums to find this gem. This picture was taken when I was in the first grade, back in 1991. I have no idea why I’m wearing a complete western get-up, especially considering I grew up on Long Island. —Matthew
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