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Self-Portrait Wearing a Cloth Hat, about 1730-1735. Creator: Jonathan Richardson the Elder.

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Self-Portrait Wearing a Cloth Hat, about 1730-1735. Additional Info: In this honest and direct self-portrait apparently made for its own sake, Jonathan Richardson the Elder used the blue paper that artists in Venice so often preferred. Drawing late in his life, Richardson focused on his face, with its firm mouth, dimpled chin, and pouchy eyes, rather than his clothing. The blue served as a middle tone, with the shadows and outlines drawn in black chalk and the gleaming tip of his nose, the edges of his lips, and his scarf highlighted in white. The smudgy, roughly applied black chalk accentuates the impression of deep shadows cast by the tilt of the turban, headgear popular with artistic types in the 1700s.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM25A00_091

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NA

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NA

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Droits gérés

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62,3Mo (5,0Mo) / 34,6cm x 45,1cm / 4086 x 5332 (300dpi)

Mots clés

blue portrait people male job man men hat head arts art guy occupation clothes British headdress color grey dress artist painter turban turbans century drawing Britain profession chalk clothing artwork concept APPAREL looking at camera B&W headgear sketch self-portrait self portrait writer head-dress head dress sketches Colour author black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century culture direct gaze Richardson black chalk white chalk Jonathan the Elder Heritage Art Drawing Jonathan Richardson the Elder Richardson Jonathan the Elder clothing & dress fashion & clothing Jonathan Richardson the Elder Artwork Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper