# Self-Portrait \(The Cellist\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COURBET, Gustave]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm ## Commentary Courbet's contribution to the Salon of 1848, which was held in the Louvre, consisted of seven paintings and three drawings. Among them was the self-portrait called The Cellist which illustrated his passionate interest in music. Both at Ornans, where members of the family and his friend Promayet played various instruments, and in Paris Courbet lived in a milieu which encouraged his inclination toward music. He could turn his hand to the violin, composed songs and took an interest in the research into folksong. ## Related artworks - [A Burial at Ornans]() - [After Dinner at Ornans]() - [Artist at His Easel]() - [Beach near Trouville]() - [Burial at Ornans \(detail\)]() - [Cliffs at Étretat]() - [Courbet in his Cell at Sainte-Pélagie]() - [Farmers of Flagey on the Return from the Market]() - [Firemen Running to a Fire]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Dead Horse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()