DEGAS, Edgar
(b. 1834, Paris, d. 1917, Paris)

Self-Portrait

c. 1863
Oil on canvas, 93 x 67 cm
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

This unfinished self-portrait shows a man not quite thirty, a stylish man of the middle class, with gloves and top hat, facing whatever the future may have in store with calm self-assurance.