# Portrait of the Artist Giovanni Paolo Pannini

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BLANCHET, Louis-Gabriel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchet-louis-gabriel-r8cd5512f01c1c6>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 97 x 76 cm

## Commentary

This portrait is the only known stand-alone portrait of Giovanni Paolo Pannini, the great painter of Roman views. Pannini did paint likenesses of himself but only as one of many characters in several of his own narrative works.

## Related artworks

- [Portrait of a Gentleman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchet-louis-gabriel-r8cd5512f01c1c6/portrait-of-a-gentleman-r14f1841fbf7abf>)
- [Portraits of Fathers Lesueur and Jacquier](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/blanchet-louis-gabriel-r8cd5512f01c1c6/portraits-of-fathers-lesueur-and-jacquier-r8126c702da5d46>)

## Attribution

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