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Self-portrait with
Spectacles
1797-1800
Oil
on
canvas
63
cm
x
49
cm
24
7/8
inches
by
19
3/8inches
Musèe
Goya,
Castres
In
de
Salas
book
(from Goya, Mayflower
1979,
page
76,)
he
states
that
this
self-portrait
painting
is
dated
conclusively
at
the
time
Goya
was
working
upon Los
Caprichos, and
that
in
this
image
he
is
in
fact
wearing
the
glasses
he
used
specifically
for
engraving
the Caprichos plates.
"Symbolizing
a
bookish,
intellectual
capacity
and
enlarging
the
eyes
as
signifiers
of
the
wearer's
powers
of
perception
and
reason,
the
inclusion
of
spectacles
in
portraits
served
to
express
an
activity
as
intangible
as
the
workings
of
the
mind,
and
more
particularly,
the
imagination.
Goya's Self-Portrait
with
spectacles makes
the
sense
of
the
sight
into
its
principal
theme."
From
Sarah
Symmons
book Goya,
Phaidon
Press,
1998,
page
133-136
There
is
a
duplicate
of
this
painting
listed
(in
de
Salas'
book Goya)
as
at
the
Musèe
Bonnat
in
Bayonne.
This
image's
size
is
54
cm
x
39.5
sm.
The
museum
web
site
is here
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