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Source Description
This self-portrait is one of several that Armand Guillaumin created as a young artist during the early 1870s. Around this time, he worked closely with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, experimenting alongside them with vivid layers of color. Here, Guillaumin juxtaposed dark, dull tones with bright blue and orange to create unexpected optical blends. He meets the viewer's gaze directly, suggesting his intense focus at a period when such experimentation was just beginning to coalesce into the Impressionist movement.
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Document identity
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286185
label
Self-Portrait
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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286185
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drawing
title
Self-Portrait
description
This self-portrait is one of several that Armand Guillaumin created as a young artist during the early 1870s. Around this time, he worked closely with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, experimenting alongside them with vivid layers of color. Here, Guillaumin juxtaposed dark, dull tones with bright blue and orange to create unexpected optical blends. He meets the viewer's gaze directly, suggesting his intense focus at a period when such experimentation was just beginning to coalesce into the Impressionist movement.
date
1872
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q87481231
creators
286182
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Drawing
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Image and Sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
2020.129
Source extras
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pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard
tombstone
Self-Portrait, 1872. Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927). Pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard; image and sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.129
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed and dated, lower left, in black pastel: Guillaumin 72
didYouKnow
Armand Guillaumin came from a working-class background and was employed as a laborer for Paris's Department of Bridges and Roads in order to support his artistic ambitions.
citations
citation
Trabault, Marc-Edo. <em>Armand Guillaumin en famille et sur le motif</em>. Exh. cat. Anvers: Antwerpen Peré, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 74-75; Reproduced: p. 63
citation
Gray, Christopher. <em>Armand Guillaumin.</em> Chester, CT: Pequot, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 12, 268, no. 28; Reproduced: frontispiece
citation
<em>Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927): En famille et sur le motif</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Thierry Mercier, 2003.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 1
citation
Salsbury, Britany. "French and Canadian Prints and Drawings." In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 56-57, 62-63, 166-167. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 62-63; Mentioned: p. 263
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 118-119, no. 18
catalogueRaisonne
Gray 28
creditline
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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2026-06-11 12:17:40.592000
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286185
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Drawings
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DR - French
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pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard
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male
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photo
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