Image: Katherine Read - self-portrait
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Description: Self-portrait of Katherine (ou Catherine) Read. woman. The work has been recognized as alluding to Maurice Quentin de La Tour's self-portrait known as L'homme qui rit, or Autoportrait à l'index (original exhibited at the Salon of 1737. She has retained La Tour's conventional yet ambiguous framing of the figure in an oval.
Title: Self-portrait
Credit: Morgan, Margery (2006). British Connoisseurs in Rome: Was it painted by Katherine Read (1723-78)?, The British Art Journal, 7(1), p. 43 fig 6.
Author: Catherine Read
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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