#1. A. The first self-portrait was painted by Judith Jans Leyster, also known as Leijster. It goes by the simple name of self-portrait. The overall size of the portrait is, twenty-nine and three-eighths inches by twenty-five and five-eighths inches, and the medium that is was used is oil on canvas. The portrait is located in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. B. The second self-portrait is called Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, and it was painted by Adelaide Labille-Guiard. The overall size of the portrait measures eighty-three inches, by fifty-nine and a half inches. The medium that was used in the creation of this portrait is also oil on canvas. This portrait is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York.…show more content… A. In the first self-portrait by Judith Leyster, it shows her sitting in a chair with all her paint brushes and the canvas that she is working on. The way she is sitting in the chair is as if she is taking a break from painting to acknowledge and converse with the person or persons that are peering in at the portrait. She is wearing a very nice dress. A dress that would not be normally worn if she was actively engaged in painting, so it is assumed that this part depicts her status within society. That she is part of the upper-class. It can also, be a bit of propaganda, like a modern day business card. It appears that she is painting a self-portrait of someone else, so it also depicts that she is actively
