Self-Portrait (El Greco) Explained

Self-Portrait
Artist:	El Greco
Year:	1595-1600
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	52.7
Width Metric:	46.7
Museum:	Metropolitan Museum of Art
City:	New York
Accession:	24.197.1

Self-Portrait or Portrait of an Old Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by El Greco, dating to between 1595 and 1600 and usually identified as a self-portrait. This is supported by the fact that the same figure appears several times in El Greco's oeuvre and aging alongside the artist.^[1] It shows the influence of Titian and Tintoretto, whose works El Greco studied in Venice. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.^[2]

See also

• List of works by El Greco

Bibliography

• ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»). .
• SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, El Greco, Colonia, Taschen, 2003. .

External links

• ArteHistoria.com. «Autorretrato» [Consulta: 01.01.2011].

Notes and References

1. Burroughs . Bryson . 1925 . A Portrait by El Greco . The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin . 20 . 5 . 122–124 . 10.2307/3254764 . 3254764 . 0026-1521.
2. Web site: Portrait of an Old Man. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 19 October 2018.