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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), 1887. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.