Self-Portrait (Thomas Sully)

A Neoclassical self-portrait in oil by the Belgian painter Joseph Paelinck (1781–1839), a pupil of Jacques-Louis David and leading figure of early 19th-century Flemish academic portraiture. The cool, profile-inflected self-portrait is often conflated in cataloguing with Thomas Sully's 1812 self-portrait, but represents a distinct Belgian tradition; the Cleveland Museum of Art holds the work as a leading North American example of 19th-century Belgian painting.

Exhibition Venue

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States