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Flourished c.400 BCE - c.301 BCE
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
Édouard Manet: Self-Portrait
Édouard Manet
French painter
Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Jan van Eyck: Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?)
Jan van Eyck
Netherlandish painter

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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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