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| Tommaso Minardi Self Portrait 1803 oil on canvas Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence |
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| Samuel Woodforde Self Portrait 1805 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Johann David Passavant Self Portrait before a Roman Landscape 1818 oil on panel Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| George Richmond Self Portrait ca. 1840 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Emma Gaggiotti-Richards Self Portrait 1853 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Edgar Degas Self Portrait ca. 1855-56 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henri Fantin-Latour Self Portrait ca. 1858 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Épilogue
Nous donc, sculptons avec le ciseau des Pensées
Le bloc vierge du Beau, Paros immaculé,
Et faisons-en surgir sous nos mains empressées
Quelque pure statue au peplos étoilé,
Afin qu'un jour, frappant de rayons gris et roses
Le chef-d'oeuvre serein, comme un nouveau Memnon
L'Aube-Postérité, fille des Temps moroses,
Fasse dans l'air futur retentir notre nom!
So we carve with the chisel of our Thought
The untouched block of Beauty, Parian,
And cause beneath our willing hands to rise, immaculate,
Some pure statue in a starry gown.
So that one day, in beams of slate and rose,
Posterity's Dawn, daughter of sad Time,
Might touch it like a new Memnon, the serene masterpiece,
And make resound through the future air our name!
– Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens (1866), translated by Karl Kirchwey (2011)
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| Stephen Pearce Self Portrait ca. 1860-65 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Frédéric Bazille Self Portrait 1865-66 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Arnold Böcklin Self Portrait with Death fiddling 1872 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Auguste Renoir Self Portrait ca. 1875 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Mimmi Zetterström Self Portrait 1876 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Heinrich von Angeli Self Portrait 1877 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Elisabeth Keyser Self Portrait 1880 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Paul Cézanne Self Portrait ca. 1880-81 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |