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Artist: Jean Fouquet
Completion Date: c.1450
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: enamel, cameo This portrait is very significant because it could possibly be the first formal self-portrait in history.
Material: copper
Gallery: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France -
Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Completion Date: c.1635
Style: Baroque
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This portrait is starting to show more realistic portraits coming into effect.
Dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
Gallery: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy -
Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Completion Date: 1852
Style: Romanticism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This painting shows that the subject is a very wealthy person, because of his clothes. hair and painting style. He has portrayed himself as powerful looking and serious.
Material: canvas
Gallery: Fries Museum -
Artist: Paul Cezanne
Completion Date: 1881
Style: Post-Impressionism
Period: Mature period
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil
Material: canvas Cezanne was a very famous artist, and his painting style was very original. He has inspired many other people to start painting.
Dimensions: 33.6 x 26 cm -
Artist: Jean-Leon Gerome
Completion Date: 1886
Style: Academicism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This portrait displays the man as powerful and evil. The light colours show a change in the type of self portraits that were being made.
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 31 cm
Gallery: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK -
Artist: Ferdinand Hodler
Completion Date: 1914
Style: Art Nouveau (Modern)
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This was a very new style of painting for its time. There are a lot of bright colours, and the picture doesn't make the man look serious or very realistic.
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 43 x 39 cm
Gallery: Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland -
Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Start Date: 1944
Completion Date:1945
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil
Material: canvas
Gallery: Private Collection This picture has an unusual colour scheme, and the subject is not looking straight ahead. It looks like the subject isn't aware that he is being painted. -
Artist: M.C. Escher
Completion Date: 1950
Style: Surrealism
Genre: self-portrait This was a very experimental portrait for its time. The artist decided to challenge himself by painting an unusual type of picture of himself, which can show that the type of self portrait was rapidly evolving. -
Artist: Julian Opie
Completion Date: 2005
Style: Neo-Pop Art
Genre: self-portrait This was created with the help of a computer, which was quite experimental. The artist has drawn his face with minimal features, but it still looks like him. -
Artist: Alejandro Cabeza
Completion Date: 2013
Style: Realism, Academicism
Genre: self-portrait
Technique: oil This artist has painted over 200 portraits of people. In this painting, he has used dark colours which is a change from the light colours we have seen previously. This portrait shows that the artist paid addention tod etail in order to create a realistic effect.
Dimensions: 130 x 97 cm
Gallery: Private Collection
