Self Portrait with Rack Picture
Self Portrait with Rack Picture
Artist
John Frederick Peto
(1854 - 1907)
Date1904
MediumOil on board
Dimensions18 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (47 × 31.1 cm)
Framed: 24 1/2 × 18 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.
Framed: 24 1/2 × 18 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011.20
Accession number
2011.20
On View
On viewCollections
Label TextJohn Frederick Peto’s art was his life, which he illustrates in this self-portrait. Set in the living room of his home in Island Heights, New Jersey, Peto gazes at the viewer with a relaxed and warm expression. Peto was not financially successful as an artist, so he earned his living playing the cornet and selling artworks to tourists. Although he worked in obscurity, he was a prolific artist who painted not for artistic fame, but because for him, art was inseparable from life.
En este autorretrato, John Fredrerick Peto, demuestra que su vida era el arte. Pintado en la sala de su hogar en Island Heights, Nueva Jersey, Peto observa al espectador con una expresión cálida y relajada. Peto no tuvo éxito económico como artista, y se ganaba su sustento tocando la corneta y vendiendo obras de arte a turistas. A pesar de haber trabajado en las sombras, fue un artista prolífico quien pintaba, no por la fama artística sino porque, para él, el arte era la vida misma.
