Sunday 10 March 2013

Stone Ducreuxs

Here's another brilliant painting by Joseph Ducreux.


This one is a self-portrait, painted circa 1793 and known in French as Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur. It isn't hard to see why this would take off as an internet meme.

2 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

He looks like quite the character!

Dave said...

He certainly does.