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    331 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    471 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing"12 records

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Four-Cornered Hat by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four-Cornered Hat

Unrecorded maker

500–900 CE · Camelid fiber

Cleared · Public Domain

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Peter Paul Rubens (Petrus Paulus Rubenius) by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peter Paul Rubens (Petrus Paulus Rubenius)

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1644–52 · Etching; second state of two (NH)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types by Anonymous, French, 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1785–90 · Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types by Anonymous, French, 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1785–90 · Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types by Anonymous, French, 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1785–90 · Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types by Anonymous, French, 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1785–90 · Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types by Anonymous, French, 18th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Costume Designs or Portrait Types

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

ca. 1785–90 · Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

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Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (d. 1828)

ca. 1797–98 · Red chalk (recto), pen and ink and red chalk (verso) on laid paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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[Studio Portrait: Man Wearing Top Hat Seated with 2 Indigenous People] by Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Studio Portrait: Man Wearing Top Hat Seated with 2 Indigenous People]

Unknown

1860s–70s · Albumen silver print with applied color

Cleared · Public Domain

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[Photo Collage: Man Wearing Blue Top Hat] by Juan Pedro Chabalgoity, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Photo Collage: Man Wearing Blue Top Hat]

Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (d. 1909)

ca. 1875 · Albumen silver print, lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Self-Portrait

William Orpen (d. 1931)

ca. 1910 · Oil on canvas

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Hat Ring

Dieter Roth (d. 1998)

1971 · Brass, iron alloy, copper alloy, silver, silver alloy, gold alloy, and felt

In copyright

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