A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Autoportrait Day 187~ Marie-Elisabeth Boulanger

French painter and educator Marie-Elisabeth Blavot Boulanger Cavé (c.1809–1883)

French painter and educator Marie-Elisabeth Blavot Boulanger Cavé (c.1809–1883)

Self-Portrait, 1975 / Cast bronze / Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC

Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico
and the United States, 1932 / Oil on metal / Private collection

Self-Portrait Holding Palette, c.1928 / Oil on canvas / Private collection

Self-Portrait, c.1885 / Painting / Foundation Singer-Polignac, Paris, France

1. Self-Portrait, 1924 / Oil on canvas / Private collection

2. Self-Portrait, 1936 / Oil on canvas / Private collection


4. Self-Portrait, 1945 / Oil on canvas / National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

5. Sculpted self-portrait of Yuliang, 1951 / Bronze / Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France

1. Between Two Worlds, 2019 / Oil on canvas / Höttinger Collection, London, UK

2. My Other, 2019 / Bronze / Private collection

3. We Will Come Find You, 2020 / Oil on linen / Private collection

1. Autoportrait, 1841 / Oil on canvas / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France

2. Portrait of Sophie Rude or her sister, 1827 / Oil on canvas / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France

1. Self-portrait, 1918 / Etching / Private collection?

2. Self-portrait with Cactus, 1926 / Pastel on paper / Private collection

3. Self-Portrait, 1927 / Pastel on paper / Private collection

4. Self-Portrait, 1929 / Painting / Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design, Berlin, DE

Self (detail), 2015 / Hand embroidery on photograph printed on linen / Private collection