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![Painting, Althéïse, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139869_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nyx, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139852_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lyral, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138987_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Kitaï, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332570_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Meditacion P X, Marc Prat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1279578_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Khasmin, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/933141_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Kid, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177768_1_grid.jpg)
Kid
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$14,555
![Fine Art Drawings, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175118_1_grid.jpg)
Woman
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$11,057
![Painting, Selo-U, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161951_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Human, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099604_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Philippe Pasqua](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1673268_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Smoke eyes, Lucile Callegari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455861_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Certitude, Lucile Callegari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455810_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Art Game, Lucile Callegari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455798_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Adso, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332603_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Supper, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212312_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The floater on the black seawater, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212300_1_grid.jpg)
The floater on the black seawater
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 198 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 78 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
$20,873
![Painting, You Man, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/863103_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le repos, Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085426_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tete M, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1792125_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Digital Heteroideus, Ya-Wei Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1212285_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait 1, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1195383_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Mask in red Seriegrafia, Marc Prat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/801255_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Maria Carbonero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1350156_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Vanité, Pei-Ming Yan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/619263_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Zaltaïne, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Combustion 2, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077974_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Combustion, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077971_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Study 1, Florian Eymann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/206737_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Themedo, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504308_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Roger Ballen, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée, Roger Ballen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1654932_1_grid.jpg)
Roger Ballen, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée
Roger Ballen
Print - 25.5 x 20 cm Print - 10 x 7.9 inch
$790
![Sculpture, Coeur, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/887703_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tondo II, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/648138_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tondo I, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/648132_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Silence, Jean-Baptiste Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134003_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 26, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1474284_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 14, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449426_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 13, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449408_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 12, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449366_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 11, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449348_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 10, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449333_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 7, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449294_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 6, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449270_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 9, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449165_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 4, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449147_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Femme 3, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449114_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Désobéir, Clement Garnung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/601155_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fragments #1, Clement Garnung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/493417_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Oasis, Véronique Bourgeois-Noury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/26469_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abierta 7, Antonio Saura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166559_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abierta 6, Antonio Saura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166556_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selo - N, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selo-A, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1607190_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selo D, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1605891_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Regardons la réalité en face, Clement Garnung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1528977_1_grid.jpg)
Regardons la réalité en face
Clement Garnung
Painting - 155 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 61 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,482
![Painting, Mamadou, Clement Garnung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1475520_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selo J1, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1371324_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Selo - Moirans, Ivan Tzonev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1195404_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amelia on her way, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171932_1_grid.jpg)
Amelia on her way
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,106
![Print, Absis Seriegrafia, Marc Prat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/801234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Introspection, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965192_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blood Rain, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1910586_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black panther, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905300_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bobby Seale, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1899915_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Kindness, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1560531_1_grid.jpg)
Kindness
Erdna André
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$564
![Fine Art Drawings, Pensive, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1560516_1_grid.jpg)
Pensive
Erdna André
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$564
![Fine Art Drawings, Mickaël, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1373718_1_grid.jpg)
Mickaël
Erdna André
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$564
![Fine Art Drawings, Le penseur, Erdna André](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1341816_1_grid.jpg)
Le penseur
Erdna André
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$564
![Painting, Apart Head, Alice Laverty](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1133469_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Libeccio, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/887718_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Sirocco, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/887712_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le porte drapeau, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/847224_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Portrait, François Chapuis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/675420_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 32.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 12.8 x 0.1 inch
$2,482
![Fine Art Drawings, Portrait of Woman, François Chapuis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/647115_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,482
![Painting, Écorce, portrait I, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/446577_1_grid.jpg)
Écorce, portrait I
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$15,796
![Print, Portrait, Juan Sebastian Barbera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/369912_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Encuentros 3, Juan Sebastian Barbera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/369900_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Encuentros 1, Juan Sebastian Barbera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/369807_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Encuentros 2, Juan Sebastian Barbera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/369792_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le dernier rituel 7, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/338947_1_grid.jpg)
Le dernier rituel 7
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 180 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,540
![Painting, Shoten, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147235_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ryushen, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139881_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gentle spirit, Roman Gulman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963407_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Melampyro, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504284_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Mira, Yoann Merienne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1332549_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paula, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202613_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hannah, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202610_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rough Night, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202607_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bill, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202604_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lily, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202601_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Larry, Randi Matushevitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1202595_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cloth Master in blue - Monochrome, Dzovig Arnelian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182069_1_grid.jpg)
Cloth Master in blue - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
$550
![Painting, Cloth Master in brown - Monochrome, Dzovig Arnelian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182066_1_grid.jpg)
Cloth Master in brown - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
$550
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…