Self-Portrait

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Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 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.)
Museum: National Gallery of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

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 brushstrokes that follow the contours of his head and torso to create an aura-like effect.