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| Willem Drost Self Portrait as St John the Evangelist ca. 1655 oil on canvas Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Gabriel Revel Portrait of a Sculptor ca. 1680 oil on canvas Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| Marie-Anne Perrache Portrait of sculptor and engineer Antoine-Michel Perrache ca. 1770-75 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Charlotte Bonaparte Self Portrait ca. 1824-26 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Elsa Knorr painting 1899 oil on canvas (sold at Karl & Faber, Munich, 2019) private collection |
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| Frederic Clay Bartlett Self Portrait in Mirror ca. 1925 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Nora Heysen Self Portrait 1932 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Sonia Gechtoff Self Portrait 1954 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| James Chapin Edward Hopper 1956 acrylic on panel (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Helen Lessore Self Portrait 1966 oil on canvas Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London |
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| Louisa Matthiasdottir Self Portrait with Yellow Table 1981 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Neil Winokur Laurie (Laurie Simmons) 1985 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| David Hockney Self Portrait 1986 color photocopy National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Mary Beth McKenzie Self Portrait ca. 1990 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Nan Goldin David Wojnarowicz at Home, NYC 1990 C-print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Louise Bourgeois Self Portrait 1994 color etching and drypoint National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Warrington Colescott Picasso at Mougins: The Etchings 2002 aquatint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
The Wish
Niobe on Phrygian sands
Turn'd a weeping Statue stands:
And the Panionian Maid
In a Swallows wings arraid;
But a Mirrour I would be,
To be lookt on still by Thee;
Or the Gown wherein thou'rt drest,
That I might thy Limbs invest;
Or a Chrystal spring, wherein
Thou might'st bath thy purer skin;
Or sweet Unguents, to anoint
And make supple every Joynt;
Or a Knot, thy Breast to deck;
Or a Chain, to clasp thy Neck;
Or thy Shoe I wish to be,
That thou might'st but tread on me.
– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as translated by Thomas Stanley (1651)