Shown from the chest up, a man with short, orange hair and green-tinted, pale skin looks at us, wearing a vivid blue painter's smock in this vertical portrait painting. His smock and the background are painted with long, mostly parallel strokes of cobalt, azure, and lapis blue. His shoulders are angled to our left, and he looks at us from the corners of his blue eyes. He has a long, slightly bumped nose, and his lips are closed within a full, rust-orange beard. He holds a palette and paintbrushes in his left hand, in the lower left corner of the canvas. The background is painted with long…
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Self-Portrait

painter Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1889

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 57.79 × 44.5 cm (22 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.) ; framed: 77.5 × 63.7 × 6.7 cm (30 1/2 × 25 1/16 × 2 5/8 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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