Self-Portrait
by BOZE, Joseph, Pastel on blue paper, 69 x 58 cm
After moving to Paris in 1780 Boze exhibited this outstanding self-portrait in 1782 at the salon de la Correspondance, the only venue in which this self-taught provincial artist was permitted to exhibit. The expressive intensity of his personality won him a popularity that granted him the privilege to paint King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the royal family, both in pastels and in oils.