Yale Center for British Art, Purchased in memory of Paul Mellon on the occasion of his centennial
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2006.16
Gallery Label:
This is the earliest of three surviving self-portraits by George Stubbs and offers a characteristically dispassionate study of the artist’s own features. It is painted on copper and was perhaps made at the time he taught himself how to etch the copper plates for his seminal treatise, The Anatomy of the Horse (1766). Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016