Autoportraits cachés. Peinture d'autant que les sources

d'autant que les sources

entre concept et technique

Alcazar tannery) and the modern era (tennis court on rue Thubaneau

this edition presents the writings written just before 1839 or

Jean Paul Gaultier

Autoportraits cachés. Peinture d'autant que les sourcesThe displayed titles of certain works do not say everything about the subject. They ignore the fact that, sometimes, the painter has slipped into the scene he has depicted. Hidden within the canvas is a self portrait. Thus, for example, Botticelli "attends" The Adoration of the Magi, El Greco is present during The Burial of Count Orgaz, as Velzquez is in Breda on June 5, 1625 when the city capitulates Ingres, for his part, depicts himself behind Joan