Self-Portrait

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Self-Portrait

Creator

Charles Samuel Keene

Photographer · 1823–1891

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Date
about 1845
Medium
Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Culture
British
Department
Drawings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
34357322-be02-4dd4-9098-21d7eaa35fb8

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Made when Charles Keene was only about 20 years old, this powerful and engaging self-portrait speaks volumes for his draftsmanship. Based on careful observation of detail and a subtle rendering of light and shade, it captures the artist close-up wearing a hat, perhaps a fez. The quality of Keene's penwork in brown ink is extraordinary, with insistent hatching and cross-hatching, and stippled effects in areas of the cheek. At about this time, when Keene was apprenticed to the book-illustrators Whymper Brothers, he made a number of etchings - "scratching on copper" as he called it - and the influence of this technique is apparent here in the precise draftsmanship.

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