Self-Portrait

1659

Oil on canvas, 84.5 × 66 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington

Almost everything here is earth: red, yellow and brown ochres, with lead white, carbon black and tiny traces of vermilion.

Scientists at the National Gallery of Art identified the ochres area by area: flesh, collar, hatband and background (2014).
Umber, the browner earth, shows at the edge of the collar.

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