Self-Portrait

Cornelis Visscher · 1649

What you practise here

Pencil/sanguine portrait: likeness and facial chiaroscuro

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Portrait of a Lady Cat Sleeping Head of an Old Woman (so-called portrait of Visscher's mother) Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Portrait of a Young Man