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Female self-portraits

Chronological list of most famous works of art.

12th century edit

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    Guda was a 12th-century nun and illuminator. She was one of the first woman to create a self-portrait in a manuscript, setting a precedent for female medieval illuminators and manuscript writers in the subsequent centuries.
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    Herrad of Landsberg. Selfportrait from Hortus deliciarum, c. 1180
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    Hildegard of Bingen. Illumination from Hildegard's Scivias (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to teacher Volmar

13th century edit

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    Claricia. She is noted for including a self-portrait in a South German psalter of c. 1200, now in The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. In the self-portrait, she depicts herself as swinging from the tail of a letter Q.[1] Additionally, she inscribed her name over her head.

15th century edit

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    Maria Ormani. Maria di Ormanno degli Albizzi's most notable work is an apparent self-portrait in a breviary (Ms. Cod. 1923, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna) that she signed and dated 1453.

16th century edit

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    Self-portrait by Caterina van Hemessen, 1548. Kunstmuseum Basel. Signed and dated. Also one of the first self-portraits by an artist of either gender displaying themselves in the act of painting
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    Self-Portrait. By Sofonisba Anguissola, 1554.
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    Self-portrait at an easel by Sofonisba Anguissola. C. 1556-1565
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    Miniature Self Portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola. C. 1556
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    Lucia Anguissola, Self-Portrait, 1557
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    Self-portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant by Lavinia Fontana (1577)
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    Lavinia Fontana. Self-Portrait in the Studio, 1579
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    Barbara Longhi. Presumed Self-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria. 1589
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    Marietta Robusti. Self-portrait with a spinet. 1590s
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    Fede Galizia. Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1596). The figure of Judith is believed to be a self-portrait.
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    Xue Susu (1564-1650). Girl Playing Jade Flute, self-portrait by Xue Susu

17th century edit

18th century edit

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    Rosalba Carriera. Self-Portrait Holding a Portrait of Her Sister (1709).
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    Giovanna Fratellini (1720)
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    Self-Portrait as "Winter". Rosalba Carriera (1730-1)
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    Anna Bacherini Piattoli (1766)
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    Anna Rosina de Gasc (1767)
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    Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria (1772)
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    Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1775)
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    Self-Portrait with Two Pupils by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1785)
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    Sophie de Condorcet
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    Self-portrait with palette by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1782)
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    Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie (1789)
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    Angelica Kauffmann, Self-Portrait as the Muse of Painting
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    Self-portrait executing a portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1790)
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    Self-Portrait with a Harp by Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux (1791)

19th century edit

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    Marguerite Gérard. Artist Painting a Portrait of a Musician (c. 1803)
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    Self-portrait of Rolinda Sharples with her mother Ellen Sharples (1816)
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    Beauty Revealed by Sarah Goodridge (1828)
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    Elisa Counis (1839)
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    Elizabeth Siddal (1854)
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    Self-portrait with Palette (1880). Marie Bashkirtseff
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    Thérèse Schwartze (1788)
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    Selbstbildnis in Matrosenbluse by Marianne von Werefkin (1893)

20th century edit

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