The Daydreamer

Portrait of a woman with a blue shawl holding flowers and with a cloud covering her head.
Portrait of a woman with a blue shawl holding flowers and smiling.

LJ Eidolon 
2022
Archival pigment print
113/250
Anonymous loan
L.2022.4.1

Inspired by Jean Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Woman, 1753
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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LJ Eidolon is a contemporary artist who draws upon art historical imagery to create surreal juxtapositions animated by dreams and the subconscious. She has spent many hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art admiring and studying the portrait of an unidentified aristocrat by Jean Marc Nattier, known for his allegorized portraits of noble women at the court of Louis XV. Eidolon considers her Daydreamer a kind of whimsical self-portrait. As proclaimed on her website, “From the hand of ancient masters to the code of modern microscopic machines. New dreams are born.”