AUTUMN 2008

SELF-PORTRAITS

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-93)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Piero della Francesca (1412-92)

Édouard Manet (1832-83)

Berthe Morisot (1841-95)

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Caterina van Hemessen (1528-87)

Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821)

 

 

 

 

MYTHOLOGY OF SELF

CATERINA VAN HEMESSEN (1528-87)

Self-portrait. Caterina van Hemessen. 1548. Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer and essayist Caterina van Hemessen is the earliest Flemish painter with surviving artwork. She was likely taught by her father who was also an artist and became a noted portraitist. The self-portrait (above) is the earliest of an artist seated at an easel. There is no surviving artwork from van Hemessen after 1554 which has caused art historians to speculate that her creative career ended with her marriage.