Self-portrait
Medium
Brush and point of brush, carbon black ink, on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 9/16 in. (15 × 9.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.103.1
Tags
About this artwork
"Self-portrait" by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), created in ca. 1796, is executed in brush and point of brush, carbon black ink, on laid paper. This drawings belongs to the Metropolitan Museum's Drawings and Prints collection. The work measures sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 9/16 in. (15 × 9.1 cm). The artwork entered the museum's collection through harris brisbane dick fund, 1935.
About the Artist
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)|Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1746–1828
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker considered the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Rising from modest provincial origins to become First Court Painter to Charles IV, Goya's career spanned the Enlightenment's optimism and the brutal Napoleonic invasion that shattered it. A mysterious illness in 1793 left him permanently deaf and ...