ID: 700008282 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008282	Record Type: Movable Work

Self-Portrait (drawing (visual work); Charles Samuel Keene (British, 1823 - 1891) (British Artist)...; about 1845; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.95)

Note: Made when Charles Keene was only about 20 years old, this powerful and engaging self-portrait speaks volumes for his draftsmanship. Based on careful observation of detail and a subtle rendering of light and shade, it captures the artist close-up wearing a hat, perhaps a fez. The quality of Keene's penwork in brown ink is extraordinary, with insistent hatching and cross-hatching, and stippled effects in areas of the cheek. At about this time, when Keene was apprenticed to the book-illustrators Whymper Brothers, he made a number of etchings - "scratching on copper" as he called it - and the influence of this technique is apparent here in the precise draftsmanship.

Titles:

Self-Portrait (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Self-Portrait as a Young Man, wearing a Fez (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1845

Creator Display:

Charles Samuel Keene (British, 1823 - 1891) (British Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Keene, Charles Samuel (British illustrator, 1823-1891) [500030662]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.95

Other: Creation: England [7002445] United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	black chalk [300080058]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, chalk)

Dimensions: 24.1 x 27.9 cm (9 1/2 x 11 in.)

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Charles Samuel Keene (British illustrator, 1823-1891) [500030662]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Self-Portrait	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Self-Portrait as a Young Man, wearing a Fez	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)