1858
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Self-Portrait (Corot par lui-meme) is a 1858 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a face with a beard and curly hair, drawn in rough, scratchy lines. The background is a web of thin, tangled strokes, almost like a fog. The face looks tired, with deep shadows under the eyes and a serious expression. The artist used a method called *cliché-verre*, where they scratched lines into glass and printed the image. This was a rare way to make portraits back then. If you like this style, check out more works by Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: KORR-oh, US: kə-ROH, kor-OH; French: ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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