The artist quite rarely signed his paintings, that's why many of his artworks remained wrongly attributed to other artists. Composer Etienne Nicolas Méhul, who was his friend, based the main character of an opera on Ducreux. Ducreux's was frequently visited by popular artists and musicians, who often commissioned portraits from him. In Paris he became associated with Jacques-Louis David, a French painter in the Neoclassical style, who helped him continue an official career.
In 1793 Joseph Ducreux returned to Paris.
There he engraved and published three of these expressive self-portraits and drew the last portrait ever made of Louis XVI. Other portraits created by Ducreux include those done of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and Maria Theresa of Austria.Īt the outbreak of the French Revolution, the artist traveled to London. Specializing in portrait painting, he generally did his early portraits in pastel. In another, titled Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur, the artist guffawed and pointed at the viewer. For instance, he painted himself in the middle of a large yawn. He used his own face to study various expressions (physiognomy), a popular field for artistic exploration. In the late 1780s, Ducreux painted "character" self-portraits. In 1769 Ducreux was sent to Vienna to paint his first portraits of Marie Antoinette, who the following year left the city and married Louis XVI of France.
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