Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait, is an 1898 painting by Ivan Ayvazovsky. The artwork, housed in Feodosia, measures 1.36 meters in width and 2.4 meters in height. It depicts a self-portrait of the artist, standing full-length. He is an older man with a white beard and mustache, wearing a dark formal suit with a red sash and several medals or decorations pinned to his chest. He holds a top hat in his left hand and rests his right hand on a dark green draped table. The background is a muted grayish-blue.