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| Gilbert Stuart Self Portrait 1778 oil on canvas Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island |
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| Karl Joseph Begas Bertel Thorvaldsen holding a sprig of Laurel 1823 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anonymous Photographer Kenyon Cox in studio of Georges Becker, Paris ca. 1881-82 albumen print (carte de visite) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Edward Penfield Harper's - January (with Penfield self-portrait) 1897 lithograph (advertising flyer) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Edward Hopper Self Portrait ca. 1900 charcoal on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Anton Josef Trčka (Antios) Egon Schiele 1914 gelatin silver print Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Max Beckmann Self Portrait 1917 etching Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Anonymous Photographer Everett Shinn painting a folding screen ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Julien Levy Artists Julio de Diego, David Hare and Jacqueline Lamba Breton with Aube Breton ca. 1945 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Kurt Blum Marc Chagall ca. 1962 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henriette Wyeth Andrew Wyeth 1963 acrylic on canvas (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Hans Namuth Mark Rothko 1964 C-print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Walter Bennett Tony Smith 1967 dye transfer print (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Brett Whiteley Straight Head of Franny 1971 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Mimi Jacobs Jay DeFeo 1976 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Susan Mullally Philip Pearlstein 1982 gelatin silver print Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| John Loengard Annie Leibovitz at work 1993 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
Beneath this fragrant myrtle shade,
While I my weary limbs recline,
O love, be thou my Ganymede,
And hither bring the gen'rous wine!
How swift the wheel of time revolves!
How soon life's little race is o'er!
And, oh! when death this frame dissolves,
Mirth, joy, and frolick is no more!
Why then, ah! fool, profusely vain,
With incense shall thy pavements shine?
Why dost thou pour, O wretch profane,
On senseless earth, the nectar'd wine?
To me thy breathing odours bring,
On me the mantling bowls bestow:
Go, Chloe, rob the roseate spring
For wreaths to grace my honour'd brow.
Yes, ere the airy dance I join
Of flitting shadows, light and vain,
I'll wisely drown, in floods of wine,
Each busy care, and idle pain.
– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as translated by Christopher Smart (1756)