# Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOZE, Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Pastel on blue paper, 69 x 58 cm ## Commentary After moving to Paris in 1780 Boze exhibited this outstanding self-portrait in 1782 at the salon de la Correspondance, the only venue in which this self-taught provincial artist was permitted to exhibit. The expressive intensity of his personality won him a popularity that granted him the privilege to paint King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the royal family, both in pastels and in oils. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()