1776
Pastel on blue paper, 60 x 51 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The painter portrayed himself more than ten times. This self-portrait is the one he offered the Académie Royale in Paris in 1776. By 1776 the artist's mental disturbances impeded him from working properly, and he offered this unfinished picture, in which irony is tinged with a certain disenchantment.
