Self-Portrait — About This Work
Armand Guillaumin, c. 1872–74
About the Work
Guillaumin faces the viewer with a sombre gaze and a firmly modelled head. Dark tones give the portrait a concentrated presence, keeping attention close to the face rather than dispersing it through a setting.
The museum connects the work with the early 1870s, when railway employment limited the time available for painting. That circumstance provides context for the portrait without making its expression a transparent record of one feeling.
The quieter palette differs from the intense colour often associated with Guillaumin's later work. Here the image depends on tonal weight and direct encounter, allowing the face to hold its place through restraint.
The Work
Artist: Armand Guillaumin
Title: Self-Portrait
Date: c. 1872–74
Medium: Oil on canvas
Recorded dimensions: 37.5 × 45.4 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1980.266
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 50 × 70 cm Classic Frame, portrait.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Bequest of Noah L. Butkin. 1980.266.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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