1855, Edgar Degas, Portrait of the Artist -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This is Degas's largest and most ambitious self-portrait. Unlike Manet, who completed just two self-portraits, both toward the end of his career, Degas produced nearly twenty in his youth and later returned to the subject in photographs. Here, he pictures himself as a smartly dressed young bourgeois draftsman, with a portfolio to his side and a porte-crayon (drawing implement) in his hand.
1855, Edgar Degas, Portrait of the Artist -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This is Degas's largest and most ambitious self-portrait. Unlike Manet, who completed just two self-portraits, both toward the end of his career, Degas produced nearly twenty in his youth and later returned to the subject in photographs. Here, he pictures himself as a smartly dressed young bourgeois draftsman, with a portfolio to his side and a porte-crayon (drawing implement) in his hand.