# Self-Portrait

- By: Thérèse Schwartze (Amsterdam, 1851–1918)
- Date: 1917
- Medium: paper, pastel (crayon)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 551 mm x width 474 mm
- Credit line: Gift of Paul Brandt, Wilrijk
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-2009-41--7ebc6a069c4fad4419f43f1f0f1cbfd9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/4d183d36684c745bcab6279dd68a8227.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.