Self Portraits

For a struggling artist the face in the mirror is a natural and inexpensive model. The examples below not only show the man but what he thought of himself. Notice that only one smiles but it is in character with the painting in which he appears.

Da Vinci

 

Schiele

Vermeer

Leonardo Da Vinci
Egon Schiele
Jan Vermeer - a figure in the Procuress
Caravaggio
Levitan
Ensor
Caravaggio - Goliath's head held by David
Levitan - Self Portrait
James Ensor - Self Portrait among Masks
Constable
Gaugin
Van Gogh
John Constable - 1806
Paul Gaugin
Vincent Van Gogh - one of many
Monet
Manet
Renoir
Eduard Monet
Claude Manet
Auguste Renoir
Steen
Hokusai
Lautrec
Jan Steen
Katsushika Hokusai - at age 83
Alphonse Toulouse-Lautrec
RUBENS
Brueghel
Remberandt
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Brueghel
Rembrandt van Rijk - 1661

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