# Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on cardboard, 40 x 32 cm ## Commentary Toulouse-Lautrec rarely portrayed himself, and even when he did, tended to distance himself from the subject by means of irony and dissembling caricature. Self-Portrait in front of a Mirror is his only self-portrait. Even here his face is obscured by shadow and hardly discernible. His congenital condition and the accidents of 1878 and 1879 had severely impaired his growth. His upper body had been able to develop normally, while his legs remained thin and brittle. In his self-portrait the painter gives the viewer no hint of his stunted growth or of his features disfigured since puberty. ## Related artworks - [A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette]() - [Admiral Viaud]() - [After the Meal]() - [Alfred la Guigne]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant]() - [An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris]() - [At the Circus: Horse and Monkes Dressage]() - [At the Moulin Rouge: La Goulue and her Sister]() - [At the Moulin Rouge or The Promenade]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() - [At the Moulin Rouge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()