, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Self-portrait with Female Nude, 1917-1918
Egon Schiele
Austrian, 1890
- 1918
black wax crayon on buff wove paper
28.7 x 44.2 cm
Purchased 1974
National Gallery of Canada (no. 17923)
Although a more familiar subject in contemporary art, the exposure of one's own naked self is exceedingly rare in the history of art. In one of the least revealing of this series of nude self-portraits, Schiele hides only his genitals and the identity of his wife, Edith, as he confronts the viewer with a self-assurance bordering on arrogance. This double-portrait was made only a year before the couple and their unborn child died during an influenza epidemic.
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