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| Philipp Otto Runge Self Portrait 1809-10 oil on panel Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Ary Scheffer Self Portrait 1826 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Self Portrait ca. 1625 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp |
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| Hendrik Leys Self Portrait 1866 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Self Portrait ca. 1700 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Johann David Swartz Self Portrait 1708 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Max Slevogt Self Portrait 1888 oil on cardboard Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Christian Seybold Self Portrait ca. 1760 oil on copper Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Lukas Karl Self Portrait ca. 1740 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Edvard Munch Self Portrait with Cigarette 1895 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Johann Ulrich Mayr Self Portrait 1663 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Jonathan Richardson, Senior Self Portrait 1733 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Cornelis Troost Self Portrait 1739 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Eilif Peterssen Self Portrait 1874 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Jan Kupecký Self Portrait painting his Wife's Portrait 1711 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Isaac Israëls Self Portrait 1916 oil on panel Dordrechts Museum |
Erratic (Erratisch)
Evenings delve
into your eye. Lip-
picked syllables –
a lovely voiceless circle –
help the creeping star
help the creeping star
into their ring. The stone, once
close to the temporal zones, now opens up:
my soul, you were
in the ether with all
the other
scattershot suns.
– Paul Celan, from Die Niemandsrose (S. Fischer-Verlag, 1963), translated by Nikolai Popov & Heather McHugh in Glottal Stop (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)