Monochrome Self Portraits

Heinrich Aldegrever
Self Portrait at age 28
1530
engraving
Národní Galerie, Prague

Werner Bischof
Self Portrait in New York
1954
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Benigno Bossi
Self Portrait
ca. 1755
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hans Burgkmair the Elder
Self Portrait
1517
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Robert Caumont
Self Portrait
1913
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Lovis Corinth
Self Portrait
1923
wash drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Caspar David Friedrich
Self Portrait with Cap and Visor-Flap
1802
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pier Leone Ghezzi
Self Portrait
1717
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Robert Hannaford
Self Portrait Study
ca. 1969
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Wilhelm Leibl
Self Portrait
1891
drawing
Kunsthaus Zürich

Andrea Mantegna
Self-Portrait as Medusa
ca. 1480
drawing
(iron-gall ink degraded by exposure to sunlight)
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe,
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Abelardo Morell
Paper Self
2012
inkjet print
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Self Portrait
(with surround by Giorgio Vasari)
ca. 1527-32 and ca. 1550
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Self Portrait
ca. 1710
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anna Maria van Schurman
Self Portrait
1633
engraving
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Wallerant Vaillant
Self Portrait
ca. 1660
mezzotint
Národní Galerie, Prague

The Fish

Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.

– W.B. Yeats (1899)