Eighteen self-portraits, and where they fall

The record dates Self-Portrait with Straw Hat to 1887. Eighteen titles in this catalogue name a self-portrait, and they occupy four years only: four dated 1886, seven dated 1887, three dated 1888 and four dated 1889. There are none in the Nuenen period and none at all in 1890, the last year. The type begins with Paris and stops before Auvers, in the record as it stands here.

What the record gives

The work is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. No dimensions are recorded, so no size is quoted. The measured palette reads as green and yellow.

The straw hat, three times

Three titles here name a straw hat: this one and Self-Portrait with Straw Hat and Pipe, both dated 1887, and a peasant girl in one dated 1890. Two self-portraits in a single year with nearly the same title are exactly the pair a catalogue must keep distinct, and the reason entries here are identified by record rather than by name. This site is not a catalogue raisonné and its Master ID is an internal identifier, not a standard reference number.