Self-Portrait (Titian, Madrid)

Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Titian. Dating to about 1560, when Titian would have been over 70 years old, it is the later of his two surviving self-portraits. It is held in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting is a realistic and unflattering depiction of the physical effects of old age, and as such shows none of the self-confidence of his earlier self-portrait (c. 1546–47) now in Berlin. That painting shows Titian in three-quarter view in an alert pose.

Titian looks remote, aged and gaunt, staring into the middle distance, seemingly lost in thought. Yet the portrait conveys dignity, authority and the mark of a master painter.