# Self-Portrait

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/self-portrait-r54b2fdba223e04>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [ELSHEIMER, Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 64 x 48 cm

## Commentary

This is the only known portrait by Elsheimer. It is an admirable record of his appearance, although the conventional format gives little hint of the tremendous influence his pictures had, not only on his northern contemporaries, but also on the whole community of painters in Rome.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and Coronis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/apollo-and-coronis-r7d759485f003e6>)
- [Apollo and the Cattle of Admetus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/apollo-and-the-cattle-of-admetus-rf2bfc6ee4fc6dc>)
- [Aurora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/aurora-r5ef8fea41f53e1>)
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- [Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/flight-into-egypt-rc8d59d2b73204d>)
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- [Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/jupiter-and-mercury-at-philemon-and-baucis-detail-r83d729d3ef6f71>)
- [Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/elsheimer-adam-re14fc14d3d004c/jupiter-and-mercury-at-philemon-and-baucis-rce5bd87666a2d1>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)