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Self-Portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Thérèse Schwartze (Amsterdam, 1851–1918)
1917
- Medium
- paper, pastel (crayon)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 551 mm x width 474 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Paul Brandt, Wilrijk
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In addition to a robust sense of self-awareness, this self-portrait by Thérèse Schwartze exudes a certain sadness. At the time she made it, the artist had lost her husband. She herself would die a year later. Schwartze’s gaze is possibly one of resignation as she looks back on a turbulent yet wildly successful international career.
