Self-portrait in the Studio
also known as
"Self-Portrait with Easel"
Oil on canvas
42 cm x 28 cm
16 1/2 inches x 11 inches
Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Xavier de Salas dates this painting 1790-1795
in his book Goya, Mayflower Books, 1978.
Sarah Symmons (in her book, Goya, Phaidon Press, 1998)
dates this painting to 1791-2.

"His intriguing Self-Portrait in the Studio has been dated as early as 1775-80 and as late as 1795. The loose style and distinctive colouring aral of Goya's painting from the 1790s, but the vigorous pose makes it unlikely to have been painted after the artist's life-threatening and lengthy illness of 1792-1793." (From Sarah Symmons book Goya, Phaidon Press, 1998, page 128)

"...he is not likely to have regularly worked in that embroidered, red-braided bullfighter's jacket, which together with Goya's direct and level gaze, makes its statement clearly: I can't be fooled, I'm tough, I am a man of the people, I know what I see." (From Robert Hughes book Goya, Knopf Books, 2003, page 81)