Female self-portraits

Chronological list of most famous works of art.

• See also Self-portraits of women (large gallery automatically generated from Wikidata)

12th century

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  Arcangela Paladini (1600s)
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  Self-portrait in old age by Sofonisba Anguissola (1610)
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  Self-Portrait as a Female Martyr by Artemisia Gentileschi (1613)
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  Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi (1615–1617)
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  Self-Portrait as a Lute Player by Artemisia Gentileschi (1615–1617)
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  Possibly self-portrait of Clara Peeters, seated at a table with precious objects (ca. 1618)
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  Self-Portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1630s)
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  Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi (1638-9)
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  Self-portrait by Judith Leyster (1630s)
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  Anna Maria van Schurman (1640)
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  Self-portrait with Easel by Michaelina Wautier (1640s)
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  Gesina ter Borch
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  Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1650)
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  Elisabetta Sirani (1658).
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  Anna Waser (1691)

18th century

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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

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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

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  Self-Portrait at 6th Wedding Anniversary by Paula Moderson-Becker (1906)
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  At the Dressing-Table by Zinaida Serebriakova (1909)
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  Selfportrait I by Marianne von Werefkin (1910).
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  Olga Rozanova (1912).
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  A Model (Nude Self-Portrait) by Florine Stettheimer (1915)

Plus copyrighted:

• en:Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) by Tamara de Lempicka (1928)
• en:The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo (1944); en:Diego And I; en:The Frame (painting); en:Frieda and Diego Rivera; en:Memory, the Heart; en:Self-Portrait with Monkey; en:Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird; en:The Two Fridas; en:The Wounded Deer; en:The Wounded Table; en:The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl
• Photo en:Ego Geometria Sum by Helen Chadwick between 1982 and 1983