Portrait de l'artiste tenant une académie
Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716 – 1780)
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About this artwork
- Title: Portrait de l'artiste tenant une académie
- Artist: Luis Egidio Meléndez
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: The Louvre
- Movement: Neoclassicism
- Period: Renaissance
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Corpus context: classical ideals of beauty , courtly patronage influence
- Main color: Phthalo Green
Quick Facts
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Artist: Luis Egidio Meléndez
- Movement: Neoclassicism
- Title: Portrait of the Artist Holding an Academy
- Artistic style: 18th-century portraiture


