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Self-portrait
Christian Seybold1740 - 1745
Brukenthal National Museum
Sibiu, Romania
Seybold's self portrait from Brukenthal has characteristic notes of his other self-portraits, from Budapest and Prague, easy to recognize by Bathasar Denner portetistical manner. The focus is clearly towards psychological-characterial accents, leaving behind the opulent decorativism of his earlier works.
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Details
- Title: Self-portrait
- Creator: Christian Seybold
- Date Created: 1740 - 1745
- Physical Location: Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
- Physical Dimensions: w43 x h55 cm (Without frame)
- Artist Biography: First recorded in Vienna on the occasion of his marriage (1715) and in 1718 was already presented as a portraitist. He was a member of the Art Academy in Vienna and Maria Theresia in 1749 granted him the title of court painter. Although little is known about his early studies, it acknowledges however that Setbold came to Vienna to perfect his painting style. He painted portraits and other works for the Viennese aristocracy, important characters such as Count Johann Adam Questenberg or Gustav Adolf Gottereau Prussian ambassador in Vienna and elector of Saxony in Dresden yard. He cultivated fashion portatits with details of an meticulously accurately and thoroughly developed, but then dropped the artificiality and abundance of the decorative baroque under the influence of Balthasar Denner and adopted representations with dramatic accents, realistic psychologising sometimes almost naturalistic, revealing testimonials from the Dutch genre scenes. © Valentin Mureșan, Pictura germană și austriacă din colecția Brukenthal, 2007.
- Provenance: Brukenthal National Museum
- Type: painting
- Medium: oil on canvas
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