# Self-Portrait

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/self-portrait-r3a2d45bb320e0a>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [FANTIN-LATOUR, Henri](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 103 x 72 cm

## Commentary

This self-portrait, painted when the artist was twenty-two, shows him in unkempt garb, his hair ungroomed, a character straight out of Henri Murger&#39; Scènes de la Vie Bohème \(1847\). As he won prosperity, Fantin-Latour turned to a sleeker, smoother manner with which he won countless commissions from wealthy English and French patrons for his exquisite still-lifes and increasingly boring portraiture.

## Related artworks

- [A Studio in the Batignolles Quarter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/a-studio-in-the-batignolles-quarter-r023a3a38aac8bd>)
- [Chrysanthemums in a Vase](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/chrysanthemums-in-a-vase-r5caa7ce3f5fa77>)
- [Corner of the Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/corner-of-the-table-r6d4b1bbdfdb2f0>)
- [Hommage to Delacroix](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/hommage-to-delacroix-r26834d56904c21>)
- [Naiad](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/naiad-rf32dcaf309bb18>)
- [Still-Life of Flowers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/still-life-of-flowers-r2913c09c7074ef>)
- [Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/still-life-with-flowers-and-fruit-raf6f861b0ae0eb>)
- [Table Corner](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/table-corner-r8531dabb70709b>)
- [The Reading](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fantin-latour-henri-r8ecae39e116dc1/the-reading-r8b43bf794381cd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)