<p style="font-weight: 400;">A never-before-seen self-portrait of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/priceless-van-gogh-stolen-in-overnight-art-heist-targeting-museum-shuttered-by-coronavirus">Vincent Van Gogh</a> has been discovered behind another of the famous artist&#8217;s paintings, a Scottish museum announced.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The self-portrait of the tortured master <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/hidden-van-gogh-self-portrait-discovered">was found</a> on the back of his “Head of a Peasant Woman” when experts at the National Galleries of Scotland’s Edinburgh gallery took an x-ray of the canvas. The work had been hidden for over a century behind layers of glue and cardboard when it was framed.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Moments like this are incredibly rare,&#8221; said Frances Fowle, a senior curator at the National Galleries of Scotland. “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_409527" style="width: 457px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-409527" class="wp-image-409527 size-large" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.41.01-PM-447x576.png" alt="A hidden masterpiece by Van Gogh has been discovered after more than a century" width="447" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.41.01-PM-447x576.png 447w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.41.01-PM-233x300.png 233w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.41.01-PM.png 608w" sizes=" (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px" /><p id="caption-attachment-409527" class="wp-caption-text">X-ray image of Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait.<br />(GRAEME YULE/NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND)</p></div>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Van Gogh, who died penniless and famously lopped off his own ear during a fight with a friend, often painted on both sides of the canvas. The newly discovered self-portrait shows him bearded, wearing a loose neckerchief and sporting a wide-brimmed hat. Experts agreed there is no doubt it was a self-portrait, and likely from an early period of his career.</p>
<p>Van Gogh painted &#8220;The Head of a Peasant Woman&#8221; in 1885, three years before he sliced off his left ear.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Art experts are trying to figure out how to delicately remove the glue and cardboard without harming “Head of a Peasant Woman.”</p>
<div id="attachment_409538" style="width: 462px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-409538" class="wp-image-409538 size-large" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.47.12-PM-452x576.png" alt="A museum in Scotland has discovered a never-seen self-portrait of master painter Vincent van Gogh" width="452" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.47.12-PM-452x576.png 452w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.47.12-PM-235x300.png 235w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-15-at-12.47.12-PM.png 758w" sizes=" (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px" /><p id="caption-attachment-409538" class="wp-caption-text">Vincent van Gogh: The Head of a Peasant Woman, 1885.<br />ANTONIA REEVE/NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND</p></div>
<p>&#8220;When we saw the x-ray for the first time of course we were hugely excited,&#8221; senior paintings conservator Lesley Stevenson said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6KR2HTPIXI&amp;feature=emb_imp_woyt">a video</a> shared by National Galleries of Scotland. &#8220;Such a major discovery happens once, twice in a conservator&#8217;s lifetime&#8230; To have an image, as elusive as it presently is, is something very, very special.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Visitors to an exhibit set for July 30-November 13 at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh will be able to view an X-ray image of the self-portrait through a lightbox.</p>

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