# Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), in 19th-century Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh painted this in 1887, aged 34. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Van Gogh looks out from beneath a straw hat, his face built from short, separate strokes of blue, orange and yellow that show how quickly he absorbed the bright palette and broken touch of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists after moving to Paris in 1886.

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## The work

- Date: 1887
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 67.187.70a
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh), Dutch, 1853–1890

Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and lay preacher before he turned to art in 1880, at twenty-seven. His early pictures of Dutch peasants are dark and heavy; in Paris from 1886 he met the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists, and his palette brightened.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Vincent van Gogh](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/vincent-van-gogh?hang=749) (14 works)
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