Shown from this chest up, a man holding a paint palette and brushes angles to our left toward an easel in this vertical painting. The portrait is loosely painted with short strokes and visible dashes in cool, green-edged yellow and blue. The man looks at or toward us from the corners of his electric-blue eyes, which are deep-set under bushy blond eyebrows. He has a bumped nose, high cheekbones, and a narrow chin. A ginger-orange mustache and beard frame his pale pink lips, which are closed. He also has short-cropped blond hair. His face is painted with strokes on mint green and straw yellow,…
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Portrait of Vincent van Gogh

painter Anonymous Artist

Imitator of related artist Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

1925/1928

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 59.1 x 47.5 cm (23 1/4 x 18 11/16 in.) ; framed: 79.1 x 68.6 x 7.6 cm (31 1/8 x 27 x 3 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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