Self-portrait as a faun and four head studies

Louis Anquetin|Louis Anquetin

1915–1920? · Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, and graphite · Drawings and Prints

A member of the Parisian avant-garde throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Anquetin turned to a more traditional practice in 1894, following a visit to Holland with his closest friend the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He became a fanatical admirer of Rubens and his study of the seventeenth-century Flemish master’s work possibly led him to the motif of the faun or satyr. Rubens made numerous paintings featuring the Greek gods Pan and Silenus. Anquetin adopted the guise of the faun, with and without horns, in many of his self-portraits.

Artist

Louis Anquetin|Louis Anquetin

Date

1915–1920?

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, and graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Schlossberg, 2019