Tag: self-portrait

Self-Portrait with Beret (c.1640)

Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self-Portrait with Beret c.1640 Oil on panel, 66 × 51.4 cm Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Compare: Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self Portrait aged 24 1639 National Gallery, London    

Self-Portrait (1659)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1659 Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 66 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a…

Self-Portrait (1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1660 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four,…

Le peintre et sa famille (c.1939)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Le peintre et sa famille (The Painter and his Family) c.1939 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 123.8 cm Tate Britain, London This symbolic painting represents the life of an artist. It is an invented scene. Despite usually working…

Autoritratto mentre dipinge ‘Amore fedele’ (1655)

Guercino (1591-1666) Autoritratto mentre dipinge ‘Amore fedele’ (Self-Portrait before a Painting of “Amor Fedele”) 1655 Oil on canvas, 116 x 95.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this vertical portrait painting, a pale-skinned, bearded man holding a painter’s palette…

Autoportrait (c.1875)

Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait) c.1875 Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 33.9 x 21.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA

Autoportrait au nimbe (1889)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait au nimbe (Self-Portrait with Halo) 1889 Oil on wood, 79.2 x 51.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A dark-haired, disembodied head of a haloed man with pale, peach skin floats against a red and yellow…