Self-Portrait
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 6 3/16 × 4 3/4 in. (15.7 × 12.1 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 10 1/16 in. (31.4 × 25.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960
Accession Number
60.598.2
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About this artwork
This self-portrait etching shows Swedish artist Anders Zorn at the height of his international fame, created in 1904 when he was forty-four years old. The work bears the artist's monogram and date in the plate's lower left corner. Demonstrating Zorn's masterful command of the etching medium, the print captures the artist's confident gaze and robust presence through skillful manipulation of line and tone. The plate measures approximately six and seven-eighths by four and fifteen-sixteenths inches...
About the Artist
Anders Zorn|Anders Zorn · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...