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A self-portrait is a picture of the artist drawing it. The earliest example of a self-portrait made was Jan van Eyck in 1433.[1] The most famous self portrait painter was Vincent van Gogh. He painted a picture of himself 37 times from 1886 to 1889.
Selection
[change | change source]- Albrecht Dürer,Self-portrait with landscape, 1498
- Leonardo da Vinci, Self-portrait as an old man,around 1512
- Peter Paul Rubens, Self-portrait with his wife Isabella, about 1609
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, 1630
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, about 1655
- Anton Graff, Self-portrait, 1765
- Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait (yawning), 1783
- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait, 1790
- Ilya Repin, Self-portrait, 1878
- Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1886–1887
- Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait, 1893
- Lovis Corinth, Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Self-portrait, 1910
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Campbell, Lorne; National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, pp 212-17, 1998, ISBN 0300-07701-7