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| Portrait of a Young Man (thought to be a self portrait), by Michiel Sweerts, 1656. |
History shows us that, when posing for his portrait, the male is quite as likely as his female counterpart to strike the telling attitude, to make a calculated declaration of self for posterity. Whether it reads as pompously aggressive, "artistic", elegantly pensive, seignorial, or self-consciously "natural", it all comes down to a personal propaganda.
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| Portrait of a Young Nobleman in Hunting Dress, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1730. |
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| Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino, circa 1530s. |
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| Portrait of a Man in Armour (French Marshal), by Sébastien Bourdon, circa 1760s. |
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| James II when Duke of York, by Sir Peter Lely, circa 1665-70. |
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| John Bours, by John Singleton Copley, 1763. |
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| A Portrait of a Man in Armour, by Jacopo Bassano, circa 1560. |
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| Unknown, circa 16th century. |
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| François Boucher, by Gustaf Lundberg, 1741. |
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| Count Kirill Razumovsky, by Jean-Louis Tocqué, 1758. |
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| The Artist in His Museum, by Charles Willson Peale, 1822. |
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| Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), by Gustave Courbet, 1845-46. |
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| Self-Portrait, by Anthony Van Dyck, 1634. |
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| Self-portrait, by Paulus Moreelse, circa 1630-34. |
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| Self-Portrait, by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1734. |
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| Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. |
