3-089-328 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

L'Artiste - Voilà qui est terminé!..., 1852. ...Le bourgeois - Ça me fait tout d'même un drôle d'effet de me voir en terre!...(The artist: - There now, it's finished....The bourgeois: - It still provokes a strange feeling in me to see myself like that in clay...) Ths subject of the likeness feels uneasy looking at his own face 'in earth', ie in the ground as if dead.