
A brand new year, and the second year for my Sidebar Art Gallery. You'll find it in the sidebar of my main blog, A Piece of My Mind, to the right of my blog posts. I install a new show every month, along with information on each artist I've featured.
For today's Through the Opera Glasses, take a stroll through the January show, Self-portrait.

Self-portrait by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, 19th century Brazilian painter

Self-portrait by Zinaida Serebryakova, early 20th century Ukrainian painter

Self-portrait by Bertalan Székely, 19th century Hungarian Romantic painter

Self-portrait by Doris Clare Zinkeisen, 20th century Scottish costume designer and painter

Self-portrait by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, 19th century Italian neo-impressionist painter

Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffman, 18th century Swiss-Austrian neo-classical painter.

Self-portrait/Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, 19th century French Realist painter

Self-portrait by Marie Bashkirtseff, 19th century Russian diarist and painter

Self-portrait by Émile Friant, late 19th/early 20th century French Realist painter