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DEGAS, Edgar: Self-Portrait

🖼 Self-Portrait, c. 1863
Oil on canvas
93 × 67 cm
Lisbon, Portugal

Soft brushwork renders a young man's contemplative gaze, his face emerging from muted tones with psychological intensity. Degas captures his own artistic identity at thirty, establishing the introspective self-examination that would define his career and influence modern portraiture's psychological depth.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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