Artist: Joseph Vivien, French, 16571734, Portrait of a Man, Pastel on blue-gray paper, mounted on wood panel, framed: 76.2 × 63.5 cm (30 × 25 in.), Joseph Vivien was the first artist to exhibit large-scale pastels that imitate oil paintings, works that were intended to be glazed, framed, and displayed like paintings. He gained international recognition for the verisimilitude that he achieved in these pastels and enjoyed a career as a court painter in Germany. Many of his portraits were widely known through reproductive engravings. The identity of the sitter in this drawing is unknown, but based on the fashion of multiple ribbon bows behind a lace cravat, the portrait can be dated to the late 1680s or early 1690s, and it may be Viviens earliest extant work. , Made in France, French, 17th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors.

Artist: Joseph Vivien, French, 16571734, Portrait of a Man, Pastel on blue-gray paper, mounted on wood panel, framed: 76.2 × 63.5 cm (30 × 25 in.), Joseph Vivien was the first artist to exhibit large-scale pastels that imitate oil paintings, works that were intended to be glazed, framed, and displayed like paintings. He gained international recognition for the verisimilitude that he achieved in these pastels and enjoyed a career as a court painter in Germany. Many of his portraits were widely known through reproductive engravings. The identity of the sitter in this drawing is unknown, but based on the fashion of multiple ribbon bows behind a lace cravat, the portrait can be dated to the late 1680s or early 1690s, and it may be Viviens earliest extant work. , Made in France, French, 17th century, Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors

Album / quintlox

Model: No - Property: No
Rights questions?

3978 x 4992 px | 56.8 MB

33.7 x 42.3 cm | 13.3 x 16.6 in (300 dpi)