Joseph Ducreux: Self-Portrait, Yawning (1783)

(Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA)

A painting by the French artist Joseph, Baron Ducreux (1735 – 1802). Ducreux was a portrait painter who used more expressive and unorthodox expressions in his self-portraits. In this self-portrait he is in the middle of a huge yawn. Painting from 1783.