# Self-Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GARZONI, Giovanna]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pastel and charcoal on paper, 495 x 380 mm ## Commentary Self-Portrait c. 1650 Pastel and charcoal on paper, 495 x 380 mm Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington This self-portrait comprises the frontispiece of an illustrated herbarium. The portrait depicts the artist as an approximately fifty- or sixty-year-old woman. However, it is assumed that the sheets of the herbarium were produced earlier, since, according to a document, the herbarium was commissioned in 1616 from the sixteen-year-old Garzoni by a pharmacist originally from Delft. It is possible that the self-portrait was inserted together with the botanical sheets as the frontispiece of the herbarium at a later date. ## Related artworks - [Bitch]() - [Bowl with Plums]() - [Branch of Dittany with Four Hazelnuts and Two Pears]() - [China Bowl with Figs, a Bird, and Cherries]() - [Chinese Porcelain Plate with Cherries]() - [Chinese Vase with Flowers, a Fig, and a Bean]() - [Figs]() - [Hyacinth with Four Cherries, a Lizard, and an Artichoke]() - [Mandrake]() - [Plate of Figs]() - [Plate of Peas]() - [Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()