Self-Portrait with Monocle, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 1782

Self-portrait. The picture shows the sixty-year-old painter sitting at the open window, her gaze raised from her reading and turned towards the viewer. She is wearing a violet silk dress with a white cloak and a dark-rimmed lens in front of her right eye. In the background is an easel with a painting and on the sill is a sketchbook and a basket of fruit. The painted stone window frame stands out as a border. Object Type: painting. Genre: self-portrait. Date: 1782. Dimensions: height: 65.7 cm (25.8 in) ; width: 54.6 cm (21.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Anna Dorothea Therbusch. Collection: Germanisches Nationalmuseum. 1782 Therbusch Selbstbildnis Germanisches Nationalmuseum anagoria