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Long-haired man in dark coat drawing with a pen on a golden globe, with a book and a crescent moon behind him.

Self-Portrait

A long-haired man in a dark coat and white cuffs leans over a round, golden globe, tracing a line on it with a quill pen. A book lies open at lower left, and a faint crescent moon glows in the dusky sky behind him.

Look closer: A faint crescent moon shines in the dark sky above the man's left shoulder.

Artist
Salvator Rosa
Date
ca. 1647
Medium
Oil on canvas
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
3105 × 3878 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1652).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary L. Harrison, 1921

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