# Self-Portrait in a Hat

- By: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824)
- Date: c. 1790
- Medium: black chalk, with stumping, heightened with traces of white gouache
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 21.6 x 17.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Delia E. Holden Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.79)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.79/1978.79_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson created this self-portrait as a young man, in his 20s, while living in Italy after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. The artist meets the viewer's gaze boldly and directly from underneath his distinctive hat. The drawing is one of several depictions that Girodet created of himself around this time and may have been intended as a gift by exchange for a colleague.