# Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIRANI, Elisabetta]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Black and red chalk on laid paper, 231 x 157 mm ## Commentary Self-Portrait c. 1660 Black and red chalk on laid paper, 231 x 157 mm Private collection Of the several hundred sheets attributed to Elisabetta Sirani, a majority are studies for the altarpieces and easel paintings she painted between 1655 and 1665, the year of her premature death. Far rarer are examples of drawn portraits, although she painted about fifteen of them. The present drawing is a self-portrait, the identity of the sitter is confirmed by other drawings and a painting. ## Related artworks - [Holy Family with Sts Elizabeth and John the Baptist]() - [Judith with the Head of Holofernes]() - [Portia Wounding her Thigh]() - [Portrait of Anna Maria Ranuzzi Marsigli as Charity]() - [St. Jerome]() - [Study for the Baptism of Christ]() - [Study]() - [The Flea]() - [Venus and Cupid]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Young St John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()