The Man with the Leather Belt Portrait of the Artist
Artist: After Gustave Courbet (French, 1819 - 1877)
Original Dimensions: 17 3/4" x 14 7/8"
Location: National Gallery of Art, London
About Artwork: (Probably early 1880s) "From around 1842 and into the 1850s Courbet painted about 20 self portraits in which he presented himself in different guises. This portrait is a reduced version of The Man with the Leather Belt (Musée d’Orsay, Paris), which Courbet painted around 1845–6. Courbet painted replicas of at least three of his self portraits and it was previously thought that he also painted this version of The Man with the Leather Belt. However, although this portrait is close in almost all details to the original, there are major differences between them. In particular, unlike the very finely painted Orsay picture, the brushwork is more cursory and less detailed. Recent research into the picture’s support and a label on the back also suggests that the painting dates from the early 1880s, and therefore could not have been painted by Courbet himself, who died in 1877. It is instead a copy by someone who had an excellent understanding of the original." - (National Gallery of Art, London)
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