# Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LARGILLIÈRE, Nicolas de]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm ## Commentary Largillière painted many portraits of himself. A number of these works were replicated, some more than once. In the present portrait, the fifty-year-old artist is seated in his studio. On the stone shelf behind him is a still-life composed of articles commonly found in an artist's studio: a rectangular wooden palette, paint-stained brushes, and an array of plaster, terracotta, or marble sculptures, all but one of which are small in scale. The most prominent is the reduction of the full-length statue of a young male nude commonly called the Antinous \(Vatican Museums, Vatican\). Largillière had already used the Antinous as a prop in his portraits of Charles Le Brun and Nicolas Coustou. ## Related artworks - [Elizabeth Throckmorton, Canoness of the Order of the Dames Augustines Anglaises]() - [François de Gontaut, Duc de Biron]() - [La Belle Strasbourgeoise]() - [Landscape]() - [Partridge in a Niche]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Man in a Purple Robe \(detail\)]() - [Portrait of a Man in a Purple Robe]() - [Portrait of Charles Le Brun]() - [Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]() - [Portrait of Pierre Parrocel]() - [Portrait of the Duchesse de Saint-Aignan]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()