Self-portrait with a friend (Raphael)

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Self-Portrait with a Friend (Double Portrait)

Raphael, 1518-1519

Oil on canvas

99 × 83 cm

Louvre, Paris

The Self-Portrait with a friend (also known as Double Portrait) is a painting by Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael.

In this double portrait the artist himself stands behind an unknown man (a friend or a pupil, perhaps Polidoro da Caravaggio or Giovanni Battista Branconio, for whom Raphael had built a palace next to St. Peter's Basilica in 1518), on whose shoulder his hand rests familiarly. Raphael looks out of the picture with a serious expression. The friend's gesture is not meant for the onlooker, but seems more directed at Raphael, as if he were showing him something—himself, perhaps, in a mirror.

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