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RAYMOND LAFAGE (LISLE-SUR-TARNE 1656-1684 LYON)
Scène bachique
signé ‘La fage’ (?) (verso)
graphite, plume et encre brune
34,2 x 50,2 cm (1312 x 1934 in.)
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RAYMOND LAFAGE, BACCHANALIAN SCENE, GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN INK

Among his many self-portraits, Lafage sometimes enjoyed putting his effigy in a medallion in the middle of Bacchic scenes. Like his Portrait allégorique (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Inv. NM 2681/1863; see P. Bjurström, French Drawings: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1976, no. 427) or the Bacchanale sur une place publique devant un palais (Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, D.1690), there is every reason to believe that the present Bacchanale also illustrates a self-portrait by Lafage, sketched in the medallion.
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Parmi ses nombreux autoportraits, Lafage s’est parfois plu à placer son effigie dans un médaillon au milieu de scènes bachiques. À l’image de son Portrait allégorique (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Inv. NM 2681/1863 ; voir P. Bjurström, French Drawings : Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1976, n° 427) ou de la Bacchanale sur une place publique devant un palais (Besançon, musée des Beaux-Arts, D.1690), il y a tout lieu de penser que la présente Bacchanale illustre aussi un autoportrait de Lafage, très esquissé dans le médaillon.

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