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Autoportrait Day 263~ Violante Siriès Cerroti

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Italian painter Violante Beatrice Siriès Cerroti (1709–1783)

1. Self-portrait, 1740-1760 / Oil on canvas / Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

2. Self-portrait, 1736 / Oil on canvas / Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

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Autoportrait Day 262~ Lois Mailou Jones

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

American artist and educator Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)

1. Self Portrait, N/D / Painting / Location?

2. Self Portrait, 1940 / Casein on board / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC

3. Under the Influence of the Masters, 1939 / Gray-wash watercolor / Front page of the Negro History Bulletin, Volume 2, issue 7
“A year later [1940], Jones produced an oil self-portrait with the same short hairstyle as the anonymous painter in the [Negro History Bulletin] watercolor, in a similar smock and collared shirt, suggesting she also had depicted herself in the earlier work.”

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Autoportrait Day 261~ Anonymous Mughal Artist

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Anonymous artist, 17th century Mughal India

The Emperor Jahangir in the Zenana, c.1620 / Brush ink, opaque pigments, and gold on paper, laid on 19th century floral album page / Private collection

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“The group at the bottom left corner includes a woman holding an album or portfolio, a well-known sign in the work of artists…that is taken to mean that this is a self-portrait of the artist of the main picture.”
From Indian and Persian Painting 1590-1840

Autoportrait Day 259~ Marisa Roësset Velasco

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Spanish figurative painter Marisa Roësset Velasco (1904-1976)

1. Self-portrait, 1924 / Oil on canvas / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

2. Self-portrait, 1926 / Painting / Collection of artist’s niece

3. Self-portrait Lying on the Floor, 1927 / Painting / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

4. Rest [probable self portrait], 1928 / Oil on canvas / Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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Autoportrait Day 258~ Maria Walpurgis

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Princess of Bavaria and Electress of Saxony, composer, singer, harpsichordist, painter, pastellist, poet, librettist, and patron of the arts Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa (1724-1780)

1. Self-portrait, c.1767–1772 / Oil on canvas / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

2. Engraving by Giuseppe Canale based on a pastel self-portrait, 1764 / British Museum, London, UK

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Autoportrait Day 256~ Hannah Maynard

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A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Canadian photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918)

Self-portrait with multiple exposures, c.1893 / Modern print from original glass negative
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada

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Hannah Maynard: “The Most Surreal Pictures in the Victorian World”
https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/hannah-maynard-photography-victoria-surreal