Self-Portrait with Felt Hat

Currently on view

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, December 1886-January 1887

oil on canvas, 41.5 cm x 32.5 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

In this self-portrait, Van Gogh is wearing a black felt hat, an overcoat and a tie (cravat). He looks like a respectable gentleman.

An X-ray image of this work makes it clear that Van Gogh painted it over another painting. He had made that earlier study – of a standing nude woman – in the atelier of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924) in Paris. He took lessons there in the spring of 1886. Instead of scraping off the painting beneath this one, he painted his self-portrait over it. He did, however, cover the woman with a new ground layer first.

F-number
F0208a
JH-number
JH1089
Object number
s0162V1962
Dimensions
41.5 cm x 32.5 cm, 54.0 cm x 44.8 cm
Provenance
Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, sometime between December 1886 and January 1887; after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris; administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren; transferred by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren, to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 10 July 1962; agreement concluded between the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State, 21 July 1962; given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.
artist
Vincent van Gogh
Credits (obliged to state)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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