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This object consists of 2 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Self Portrait

Oil Painting
18th century (painted)
Artist/Maker
Vaillant, Wallerant (after)

An oil portrait of the artist Sébastien Bourdon, clothed in black and painted in three-quarter profile.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Portraits
Object type
Oil painting
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Oil
  • Frame
TitleSelf Portrait (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas laid on panel
Oil Paint
Canvas
Panel
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil Painting, 'Self portrait', after Wallerant Vaillant, 18th century
Physical description
An oil portrait of the artist Sébastien Bourdon, clothed in black and painted in three-quarter profile.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 30cm
  • Estimate width: 23cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1869
Production
An 18th century copy, probably of the portrait in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.
Subject depicted
Self-Portraits
Bibliographic references
  • Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 45, cat. no. 45
  • H. Weizsäcker, Catalog der Gemäldegalerie des Städelschen Kunstinstituts in Frankfurt am Main; Die Werke der älteren Meister, 1900, p. 286.
  • H. Jedding, Der Tiermaler Joh. Heinr. Roos, 1955, p. 281.
  • J. Thuillier ed., Sébastien Bourdon, Paris, 2000, no. 142, p. 486.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.43

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Record createdOctober 5, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O128368/self-portrait-oil-painting-vaillant-wallerant/
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