Self-Portraits

What do you think you can tell about a person from their self-portrait? What kind of a person are they? What are they feeling? What kind of life have they lived? 

 

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782.

 

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Quentin de la Tour - Self-portrait, 1751.

 

 Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-portrait, 1669.

 

 Vincent van Gogh - Self-portrait, 1889.

 

Zinaida Serebryakova - At the Dressing Table, 1909.

 

Valentin Serov, 1887.

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Self-portrait, 1910.

 

Gwen John, 1902.

 

Diego Velazquez - Self-portrait, 1643.

 

Angelica Kaufmann, early 1780's.