Painted on the reverse of his canvas The Potato Peeler in 1887, Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat dates from his two-year stay in Paris, when contact with Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painting led him to abandon the dark Dutch palette of his early work for the broken, high-key color visible here. The double-sided canvas — a self-portrait painted over an earlier composition — is itself a small record of an artist working with limited means, reusing supports rather than discarding them. The collection received the painting through the bequest of Adelaide Milton de Groot in 1967. Scion regards physical evidence of this kind, a reused canvas datable through its verso, as exactly the sort of material detail that corroborates a documented attribution beyond stylistic judgment alone.