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Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso)

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SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-334315 Category: Giclee Prints Tags: Figures, Portrait Artist: Goya, Francisco de

Tags: Figures, Portrait

Description

In Self-Portrait in a Top Hat, Goya appears in profile wearing a top hat within a drawn frame, giving the self-portrait a clear and deliberately presented identity. The turned head belongs to a more formal mode of self-observation than the youthful frontal likeness. The frame holds the encounter as a considered image, making the artist both its maker and its subject.

The displayed recto is drawn in red chalk around 1797–98; separate face studies on the reverse belong to the sheet’s broader working history. The warm material gives the likeness a different character from the etched self-portrait that opens Los Caprichos. Its appeal lies in the meeting of private study and public bearing, where a recognizable face is shaped into a portrait through pose, headwear and the limits drawn around it.

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