Self-portrait

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. The most famous self portrait painter was Vincent van Gogh. He painted a picture of himself 37 times from 1886 to 1889.

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  Albrecht Dürer,Self-portrait with landscape, 1498

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  Leonardo da Vinci, Self-portrait as an old man,around 1512

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  Peter Paul Rubens, Self-portrait with his wife Isabella, about 1609

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  Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, 1630

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  Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, about 1655

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  Anton Graff, Self-portrait, 1765

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  Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait (yawning), 1783

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  Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait, 1790

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  Ilya Repin, Self-portrait, 1878

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  Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1886–1887

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  Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait, 1893

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  Lovis Corinth, Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896

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  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Self-portrait, 1910

Self-portrait Media

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  Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait without beard, end September 1889, (F 525), Oil on canvas, 40 × 31 cm., Private collection. This may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait. Given as a birthday gift to his mother.

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  Self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of genre subjects. NGA, 1630. In reality, she probably did not wear expensive clothes like these while painting.

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  Johannes Gumpp, 1646, shows how most self-portraits were painted.

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  Joseph Wright of Derby Self-portrait (1765-1768)

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  Self-Portrait of Van Gogh with head bandaged, after he (debatedly) cut off part of his ear.

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  Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, dedicated to Gauguin, 1888

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  Gustave Courbet, The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic (and Moral) Life, 1855, Musée d'Orsay

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  Rembrandt, The Artist in his Studio, 1628, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston