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Self-Portrait by Washington Allston — VisualArtsDB

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Self-Portrait

Washington Allston

1793–1803

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 85.4 x 66.6 cm (33 5/8 x 26 1/4 in.)
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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This is an unfinished self-portrait by Allston.

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Male Figure with a Sword; Head of a Woman, for "Fairies on the Seashore..."

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Washington Allston, 1817

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