Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle [SEP] inception
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (or "Eryngium") is an oil painting on parchment pasted on canvas by German artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted in 1493, it is the earliest of Dürer's painted self-portraits and has been identified as one of the first self-portraits painted by a Northern artist. It was acquired in 1922 by the Louvre in Paris.
Dürer looks out at the viewer with a psychologically complex but rather melancholy and reserved, serious minded,
Lawrence Gowing, who calls this "the most French of all his pictures", the "Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle" is singular among Dürer's paintings as "the touch is freer and color more iridescent than in any other picture one remembers".
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References Sources.
- Brion, Marcel. "Dürer". London: Thames and Hudson, 1960.
- Gowing, Lawrence. "Paintings in the Louvre". New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1987.