In all likelihood, it is the National Museum's self-portrait he had in mind. In a letter dated 20 September 1889, he refers to a picture as "an attempt from when I was ill". Van Gogh wrote many letters throughout his life, and these have been important sources in the research. In addition, the brush strokes in the background of the three portraits have a relatively similar structure. The eyes are green, matching the artist's real eye colour. The dimensions of the head are almost exactly the same in all three paintings, and the artist takes the same pose. The composition of the painting also coincides with two self-portraits that were painted at about the same time: The colour palette is also the same, and pigment tests have shown that the type of paint used matches that of several other paintings produced during this period. Technical studies have shown that the picture is painted on a type of canvas that is typical of several of the works Van Gogh produced in the same period. From then until the National Gallery purchased the painting in July 1910, it passed through the hands of various art dealers. There are documents showing that the Ginouxes sold the painting to an art dealer in Paris in February 1896. The couple received the picture as payment for the artist's stay in their guest house in Arles. One is now certain that the first owners of the painting were a married couple with the name of Ginoux. The National Museum's own research on the painting's owner history from 2004 has now been confirmed by the researchers at the Van Gogh Museum. At the time he was a patient at an institution for the mentally ill at Saint-Rémy in Provence. The new findings show that this self-portrait was the first work he painted after a long period of illness in the summer of 1889. It is research on owner history, materials and style that now confirms that the picture was painted by van Gogh. The researchers’ certainty is based on several factors, and the work underlying their conclusion is published in the renowned art publication Burlington Magazine.
However, now a team of experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has concluded that the self-portrait was painted by van Gogh in 1889.
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