Self-Portrait
by BONNARD, Pierre, Oil on canvas
Bonnard graduated when he was 21, and he was sworn in as a barrister in 1889. In the meantime, he was already drawing and painting, having enrolled at the Acad�mie Julian, Paris, in 1887. In an attractive Self-portrait of 1889 (private collection), he depicted himself not in barrister’s robes but as a young painter, holding a palette.