Self-Portrait in a Cocked Hat
Medium
Pen and brown (iron gall?) ink on paper
Dimensions
3 7/8 × 3 7/16 in. (9.8 × 8.8 cm) Frame: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 × 1 in. (54 × 41.3 × 2.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.976
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About this artwork
This intimate self-portrait demonstrates Francisco de Goya's remarkable skill with pen and ink, capturing both physical likeness and social persona in a work of modest scale but considerable presence. Created around 1790, when Goya was in his mid-forties and rising in prominence as a court painter, this vigorous drawing presents the artist in a dashing tricorne (cocked) hat, fashionable attire that announces his social status. Executed in brown iron gall ink on paper, the portrait measures less ...
About the Artist
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 ...