ROLAND, Philippe-Laurent
(b. 1746, Lille, d. 1816, Paris)

Self Portrait

c. 1785
Marble, height 53 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

As a portraitist, Roland is admired for the naturalistic, sympathetic rendering of his subjects in an advanced Neoclassical style, as is evident in his self-portrait. The portrait, though austere, shows a lean man with intelligent, well-knit features and a direct gaze.