Self-Portrait (Camille Pissarro, par lui-meme)

About this work

This sketch shows a bearded man wearing glasses and a wide-brimmed hat. His face is drawn in rough, scratchy lines, with the beard made of quick, jagged strokes. The hat’s texture is shown with crisscrossed marks, almost like woven fabric. The background is just a dark, empty space. The artist used a sharp tool to carve into metal, creating the lines you see—this is called etching. The marks are so precise they still look sharp even in the print. Look up etching next to see how artists like this make prints.