Portrait of an Old Man, ca. 1595?1600, Oil on canvas, 20 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (52. 7 x 46. 7 cm), Paintings, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iraklion (Candia) 1540/41?1614 Toledo), El Greco's candid portraits have been consistently admired for their naturalism and psychological insight, even when (as in the eighteenth century) his other works fell out of favor. Since about 1900 this portrait of about 1595?1600 has been alternately accepted and rejected as a searching self-portrait