Self-Portrait

About the Artwork

François LePage belonged to a family of flower painters and worked in the French city of Lyon, which was famous for producing silk, particularly fabric with flower motifs. Flower painting was a specialty associated with the Lyon school of painting, and is a subject that requires both delicacy and dexterity, both of which are highlighted in this small self-portrait.

Provenance

(Heim Gallery, London, 1972); Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004.

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: François LePage (French, 1796–1871)
Date: 1824
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 51 x 42 x 4.5 cm (20 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 41.3 x 32.8 cm (16 1/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: Painting
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in honor of Henry Hawley
Accession no.: 2004.17

Open-access museum record · AT-00009607