Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, Rijksmuseum, 1887

A rare head-on view, painted on artist's board in Paris in the spring of 1887. Van Gogh seldom faced the mirror straight on, possibly because it showed the hollow cheeks left by his missing teeth. The background has broken into short blue strokes, an early sign of the brighter color he was testing that year, his most prolific for self-portraits. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.