Joseph Ducreux: Self-portrait of the artist in the guise of a mocker (1793)


(Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille, France)

A painting by the French artist Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802). Ducreux specialized in portraits and worked at the French court. His best known portraits are his more informal works such as this in which Ducreux is mocking the viewer. Painting from 1793.