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Self-portrait

Joseph Kyle American
ca. 1859
Not on view
Despite a long and productive career, little is now known of Kyle, an artist noted for his now lost panoramas. His self-portrait resembles the work of his contemporaries Charles Loring Elliott and G. P. A. Healy. The brushwork, perhaps in an effort to compete with photography, is meticulously rendered, capturing both light effects and detail. The picture is undated; however, when lending it to the Museum in 1895, Kyle's daughter said her father painted it in 1859. Another portrait showing Kyle as a young man is in the National Academy of Design, New York.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Self-portrait
  • Artist: Joseph Kyle (1815–1863)
  • Date: ca. 1859
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Miss Louise Sherman Kyle, 1906
  • Object Number: 06.1311
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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