Brushes and Brilliance: French Female Painters

Self-Portrait with a Harp

Gallery 528 · Rose Adélaïde Ducreux · 1791 · Met web page

Rose Adélaïde Ducreux's monumental self-portrait, painted for the 1791 Salon, presents the artist as both musician and painter—a declaration of her dual talents and professional ambitions.

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Gallery 821

Entrance → Gallery 528

To Self-Portrait with a Harp

Self-Portrait with a Harp by Rose Adélaïde Ducreux

From the Great Hall, walk through galleries 300, 304, and 305, then continue through galleries 520 and 524 to reach gallery 528 in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts section on Floor 1.