Portrait of an Old Man
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
ca. 1595–1600 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
El Greco’s candid portraits have been consistently admired for their naturalism and psychological insight, even when his other works fell out of favor. Having appeared regularly in Spanish, French, and German publications on the artist in the first years of the twentieth century, this painting entered the collection at The Met in 1924. With its direct address, informality, and similarity to images believed to represent El Greco himself, the work has often been identified as a self-portrait, though this is impossible to affirm definitively.
- Artist
- El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
- Date
- ca. 1595–1600
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924
