# Self-Portrait

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LISIEWSKA, Anna Dorothea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 151 x 115 cm

## Commentary

This self-portrait of the artist is her best work. Partly unfinished, it is a monument to the artist&#39;s self-scrutiny. She shows herself reading, not painting, and hides her right hand. A pendant likeness of her husband is lost.

## Related artworks

- [Kurfürst Karl Theodor von der Pfalz](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778/kurfrst-karl-theodor-von-der-pfalz-r025220e97db752>)
- [Portrait of Jacob Philipp Hackert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778/portrait-of-jacob-philipp-hackert-r81daec77ba5fa2>)
- [The Arrival of the Love Letter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778/the-arrival-of-the-love-letter-r905b44aea83ab1>)
- [The Reading of the Love Letter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778/the-reading-of-the-love-letter-rc35f7b0d195b7e>)
- [Wilhelmine Encke, Countess Lichtenau](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lisiewska-anna-dorothea-ra2dd514806d778/wilhelmine-encke-countess-lichtenau-r00d1cf06047a62>)

## Attribution

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