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DAVID, Jacques-Louis: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, 1791
Oil on canvas
64 × 53 cm
Florence, Italy

Piercing eyes and austere features emerge from shadow, rendered with neoclassical precision in muted tones. David captures himself at the height of Revolutionary fervor, presenting the artist as intellectual authority rather than romantic figure.

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E. H. Gombrich
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