Self-Portrait ("a l'air fatal")

Achille Devéria (French, 1800–1857)

1830

Medium/Technique Crayon lithograph on thin gray paper, mounted during printing (chine collée)

Dimensions 39.8 x 29 cm (15 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Lee M. Friedman Fund

Accession Number1984.417

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Beraldi IX 001

DescriptionThe celebrity portrait artist and fashion illustrator Devéria here presents himself in fashionably Romantic demonic guise.

ProvenanceEx. coll.: Beurdeley (Lugt 421). Purchased by V/C.