Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso)
Medium
Red chalk (recto), pen and ink and red chalk (verso) on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 5/8 in. (19.8 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number
1972.118.295
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About this artwork
This drawings by spanish artist Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) exemplifies the artistic achievements of ca. 1797–98. Spanish artists contributed powerfully to European visual culture, bringing distinctive approaches to light, composition, and emotional expression. Drawing served as a vital practice for artists, functioning as both preparatory studies and finished works that reveal creative processes and technical skills. Executed in red chalk (recto), pen and ink and red chalk (verso) on l...
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 ...