Portrait of the Painter
John La Farge
1859 · Oil on wood panel · The American Wing
This self-portrait, which La Farge painted in October 1859 at his family's estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, reflects his use of a photograph as a pictorial source; his appreciation of the unmodulated shapes and flattened space of Japanese prints; his reliance on broad tonal masses in the manner of his teachers, Thomas Couture and William Morris Hunt; and his experiments in plein-air landscape painting. The artist portrays himself as a landscapist ready to embark on a painting expedition.
- Artist
- John La Farge
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934
