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Self-portrait (Jan Lievens)
Self-portrait
- ... that X-radiographs of Jan Lievens c. 1629–1630 Self-portrait have shown that the artist made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait? Source: X-radiographs indicate that Lievens made transformative revisions to his appearance during the course of the painting’s execution (fig 3). Lievens eliminated a hat, probably a painter’s beret, that he initially had placed tilted slightly forward on his head, and in its place added freely rendered, flowing locks at the left, perhaps in emulation of English or Flemish courtly hair styles. These changes strengthened his presentation into a dashing, almost aristocratic young man who peers out past the viewer, although he had already left behind his Leiden persona in anticipation of the career he hoped would soon unfold at the court of King Charles I in London.
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