Self-Portrait with Striped Collar
by COURBET, Gustave, Oil on canvas, 46 x 37 cm
Though Courbet was inspired and correspondingly successful in his treatment of groups, he did not stop painting more intimate pictures such as the last self- portrait, Self-Portrait with Striped Collar. It was painted at Montpellier and suggests a certain weariness with the genre; it was indeed, the last self-portrait that he painted for some twenty years.