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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
About this painting
Painted on the reverse of an 1885 Nuenen peasant study, The Potato Peeler, this Met self-portrait shows Van Gogh in a straw hat, applying the Neo-Impressionist color theory he absorbed in Paris.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.6 × 31.8 cm (16 × 12.5 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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