jumpingjacktrash:doyoubelieveinmonsters:hajandrade:Some Self Portraits by Women Artists:Sofonisba An
jumpingjacktrash:doyoubelieveinmonsters:hajandrade:Some Self Portraits by Women Artists:Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1530-1625), Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel, 1556Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660), Self Portrait, ca. 1630Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842), Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782Marie-Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761-1818), Self Portrait, c. 1783Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884-1967), At the Dressing Table - Self Portrait, 1909Nasta Rojc (Croatian, 1883-1964), Self Portrait, 1912Tamara de Lempika (Polish, 1898-1980), Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1908-1996), Self Portrait with Scorpion, 1938Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), Self Portrait, 1945Yana Movchan (b. in Kiev, Ukraine, 1971), Beautiful Me (Self Portrait)@corsica1789i love how judith leyster painted herself in a starched ruff she would never have normally worn for painting. what did she do, paint it from memory? have a friend model it? but i like to imagine her filling in the final details while looking in the mirror, arms stretched way out and – carefully, carefully – and one of the lace points still dragged in the palette, because that’s how life is. -- source link
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