Self-Portrait (Camille Pissarro, par lui-meme)

c. 1890

Camille Pissarro

Artist, French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903

Printed with black lines and dense hatching, a man with a long white beard is shown from the chest up in this square portrait etching. The man looks slightly off to our right with deep-set, dark eyes peering over half-moon glasses. His mouth is hidden under a busy mustache over his full beard. A few tufts of hair peek out from under his floppy, light-colored hat, and he wears a dark garment that nearly blends into the shadowy background. Graphite inscriptions under the image read “1st Etat No. 11” to the left and “C. Pissarro” to the right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (zinc)

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.7 x 17.7 cm (7 3/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.7 x 23.2 cm (13 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.115

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 90, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Self-Portrait.

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

Wikidata ID

Q65222075

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