Abstract
Artist’s Portrait in the 18th C. and Contemporary Criticism. The genre of portraiture experienced an extraordinary boost during the 18th C. As official arbiters of taste, Salon critics valued portraits of artists above all others, a position which seems to mirror positive developments in the artist’s status in Enlightenment society. Artists’ portraits of artists seem to have particularly attracted critics’ attention. Based on an analysis of a large material including the Deloynes-Duplessis collection, the author lists the qualities perceived in this new genre — vivacity, quality of brushwork, etc. Portraits of artists seem to have fulfilled those criteria which satisfied both the Académie and the new sensibility of the connoisseurs.
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