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![Painting, Anne, Philippe Pasqua](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1953366_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Nude, Albert Fernand-Renault](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/992529_1_grid.jpg)
Nude
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 63 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 24.8 x 0 inch
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![Print, Sans-titre, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/863250_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Etude pour la Virgilienne, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1157109_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/771648_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, L'Aimante, Julien Cuny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1324929_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, La vague 1, Marie Taklanti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/483832_1_grid.jpg)
La vague 1
Marie Taklanti
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 73 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 28.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Le vent sur ma peau, Cécile Desserle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202206_1_grid.jpg)
Le vent sur ma peau
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, La femme médecine, Julien Cuny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1787472_1_grid.jpg)
La femme médecine
Julien Cuny
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, La ronde, Marie Taklanti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/715077_1_grid.jpg)
La ronde
Marie Taklanti
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 80 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Nude of a Woman, Mino Maccari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/996465_1_grid.jpg)
Nude of a Woman
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 20.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 8.1 x 0 inch
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![Print, Erotic Scene, Mino Maccari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/685257_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Etude pour l'avortement, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1769196_1_grid.jpg)
Etude pour l'avortement
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.2 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Etude pour la Porte de Déméter, Naples, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/587694_1_grid.jpg)
Etude pour la Porte de Déméter, Naples
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 38 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 15 inch
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![Print, Figures, Mino Maccari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/997299_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les rescapés, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/560002_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bagaya, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139900_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Maternité, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1031094_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Fuite, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/900069_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Etreinte, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1082343_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Femme assise, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699102_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Nude, Simon Goldberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/892392_1_grid.jpg)
Nude
Simon Goldberg
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 18.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Breast print 11, Dzovig Arnelian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2006793_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Dancing, Mino Maccari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1964064_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nude, Mino Maccari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963998_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Jugement, Laetitia Allal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959937_1_grid.jpg)
Jugement
Laetitia Allal
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Tête rouge, Laetitia Allal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959778_1_grid.jpg)
Tête rouge
Laetitia Allal
Fine Art Drawings - 41.5 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.3 x 11.6 x 0 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Maelstrom, Marie Taklanti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/719091_1_grid.jpg)
Maelstrom
Marie Taklanti
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 49 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 19.3 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Sally can't dance, Marie-Ange Daudé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/548515_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans Titre, Jean-Baptiste Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/856506_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre
Jean-Baptiste Dumont
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Effacement, Marie-Ange Daudé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1757865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eclat d'innocence, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178585_1_grid.jpg)
Eclat d'innocence
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
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![Painting, Glistening adornment, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138454_1_grid.jpg)
Glistening adornment
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
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![Painting, Bleu Morpho, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1129380_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Francki, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142187_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Racines, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1423245_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Empreinte, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206580_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Icare, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1728114_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Icare, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1728087_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1683969_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1423302_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1416936_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171587_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Croyance, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1138542_1_grid.jpg)
Croyance
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 2 inch
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![Painting, Icare, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476054_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Icare, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1309548_1_grid.jpg)
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…