Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1781 - Self-Portrait with a Visor - fine art print

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• The canvas print: The printed canvas, which shall not be mistaken with an artwork painted on a canvas, is an image applied on a canvas material. Your canvas of this work of art will let you turn your personal fine art print into a large work of art like you know from galleries. Hanging your canvas print: The great advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is easy to hang up your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Because of thata canvas print is suitable for any type of wall.
• Aluminium dibond: Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an outstanding depth effect - for a modern impression and non-reflective surface. A direct Aluminium Dibond Print is the perfect introduction to art reproductions on aluminum. For the Aluminium Dibond option, we print your chosen artpiece right onto the aluminium composite white-primed surface. The bright components of the original work of art shine with a silky gloss, however without any glare.
• The acrylic glass print: The print on acrylic glass, often labelled as a UV print on plexiglass, changes the original into beautiful wall decoration. Your work of art is being manufactured with state-of-the-art UV printing machines. This has the effect of deep, vibrant colors. The plexiglass with real glass coating protects your chosen fine art print against light and external influences for many years to come.
• Poster print (canvas material): Our poster print is a printed flat canvas with a slight surface texture. It is optimally used for framing your art replica in a custom-made frame. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin of around 2-6cm round about the print motif, which facilitates the framing.

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Artwork description as provided by the museum (© - Art Institute Chicago - www.artic.edu)

Over a century after its creation, the French novelist Marcel Proust said of Jean-Siméon Chardin’s audacious self-portrait, “This old oddity is so intelligent, so crazy … above all, so much of an artist.” In a fitting finale to a long, successful career as a painter of still lifes and genre scenes, Chardin turned in his last decade to a new medium, pastel, and to a new subject matter, portraits (primarily self-portraits). Eye problems arising from lead-based oil paint poisoning were the partial cause of this dramatic change. Of his thirteen extant pastel self-portraits, the most famous are versions of the example seen here, with the casually dressed, aging artist in his studio. A virtuoso colorist, the septuagenarian here revealed a joyously free stroke and palette. Nonetheless, the construction of the figure is solid and rigorous, adding to his powerful presence. This composition was created at the same time as a portrait of the artist’s wife for the 1775 Salon (Musée du Louvre, Paris). A year later, Chardin—with greater daring—replicated the pair. These later portraits were separated for almost two hundred years, until they were reunited in the collection of the Art Institute.

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The over 230 years old artpiece Self-Portrait with a Visor was created by the artist Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin. The 230 year old artpiece measures the size: 457 × 374 mm and was painted with the technique pastel on blue laid paper, mounted on canvas. This artwork belongs to the Art Institute Chicago's art collection. We are pleased to reference that this masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is included with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. Creditline of the artwork: Clarence Buckingham Collection and the Harold Joachim Memorial Fund. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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