Thursday, February 5, 2026

Selves

Michiel Sweerts
Self Portrait with Skull
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario


Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Self Portrait
ca. 1735-45
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Thomas Frye
Self Portrait
ca. 1760
mezzotint
British Museum

Benjamin West
Self Portrait
1819
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Karl Sandhaas
Self Portrait
ca. 1830
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Charles Nègre
Self Portrait
ca. 1850
collodion print from salted paper negative
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Wilhelm Füssli
Self Portrait
1852
lithograph
Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zürich

Élie Delaunay
Self Portrait
ca. 1860
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Hugh Ramsay
Self Portrait
ca. 1901-1902
drawing
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Everett Shinn
Self Portrait
1901
pastel on blue paper
(dedicated to tragedienne Julia Marlowe)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Hans Richter
Self Portrait
1916
drawing
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Hugo Ball
Self Portrait
ca. 1920
wood-engraving
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Herbert Badham
Self Portrait
ca. 1920-25
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Edvard Munch
Self Portrait
ca. 1925-26
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Leo Bensemann
Self Portrait
ca. 1936-37
oil on board
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Paul Cadmus
Self Portrait
1965
crayon on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Hans Namuth
Self Portrait
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Dedication

A yellow-coated pomegranate, figs like lizards' necks,
    a handful of half-rosy part-ripe grapes,
a quince all delicate-downed and fragrant-fleeced,
    a walnut winking out from its green shell,
a cucumber with the bloom on it pouting from its leaf-bed,
    and a ripe gold-coated olive – dedicated
to Priapus friend of travellers, by Lamon the gardener,
    begging strength for his limbs and his trees.

– Philip (mid-1st century AD), translated by Edwin Morgan (1973)