Self-Portrait

Pissarro looks back at us with the gravity of someone studying himself as closely as a landscape.

What to notice

Notice the contrast between the dark coat and the bright beard; the face emerges from shadow without becoming polished or idealized.

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This is Pissarro's only etched self-portrait. Made around age sixty, it shows his admiration for Rembrandt while preserving the directness of experimental printmaking.