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.

Selection

• Albrecht Dürer,Self-portrait with landscape, 1498

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

• Peter Paul Rubens Peter Paul Rubens - The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brant, in the Honeysuckle Bower.jpg

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

• Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 128.jpg

  Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, 1630

• Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 132.jpg

  Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait, about 1655

• Anton Graff 1765.jpg

  Anton Graff, Self-portrait, 1765

• Joseph Ducreux (French - Self-Portrait, Yawning - Google Art Project.jpg

  Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait (yawning), 1783

• Lebrun, Self-portrait.jpg

  Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Self-portrait, 1790

• Repin selfportrait 1878.jpg

  Ilya Repin, Self-portrait, 1878

• VanGogh 1887 Selbstbildnis.jpg

  Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1886–1887

• Paul Gauguin 111.jpg

  Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait, 1893

• Lovis Corinth 010.jpg

  Lovis Corinth, Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896

• Renoir Self-Portrait 1910.jpg

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Self-portrait, 1910

Self-portrait Media

• Vincent Willem van Gogh 102.jpg

  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.

• Judith Leyster - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg

  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.

• Johannes gumpp.jpg

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

• Joseph Wright of Derby - Self-portrait - Google Art Project.jpg

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

• VanGogh-self-portrait-with bandaged ear.jpg

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

• Van Gogh self-portrait dedicated to Gauguin.jpg

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

• Courbet LAtelier du peintre.jpg

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

• Rembrandt The Artist in his studio.jpg

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