Self-Portrait, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1887

The Parisian gentleman's jacket is gone: in this summer 1887 head he wears a blue painter's smock, turned sharply over his shoulder against a dark ground. It is one of a group he painted on the backs of canvases from his Dutch years, which he had sent to Theo and found waiting in his brother's flat, most likely because new canvas was more than he could afford. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.