Gustave Caillebotte’s Self-Portrait with a Hat
at the Art Institute of Chicago
This drawing is not currently on view, but is in the digital archive of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gustave Caillebotte is one of my favorite French artists and I love the idea of getting to spend a little time with him while working on this drawing.
Caillebotte drew this self-portrait with graphite on off-white, medium-weight, moderately textured paper. It is on a fairly large (approximately 20″ x 13″) sheet of paper.
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