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Self-Portrait of Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Georg Friedrich Schmidt1742
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Bust-length portrait of the artist, turned toward the left, looking out at the spectator. Enclosed in the architectural enframement of a window, his left arm rests on the sill, the hand pointed to the left. Inscription below, in frame: "Peint par De La Tour/et Gravé/Par son ami Schmidt/en 1742." Address in margin below.
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- Title: Self-Portrait of Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
- Creator: Georg Friedrich Schmidt, French school, 1712 - 1775
- Date Created: 1742
- Location Created: Paris
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Engraving on paper
- Credit line: Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
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