ID: 700009261 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009261	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Self-Portrait (painting (visual work); Leonora Carrington (English painter, sculptor, and author, 1...; ca. 1937/1938; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 2002.456.1)

Note: Dreamlike scene in which the artist is seated in a room, with symbolic animals, including a lactating hyena, tailless rocking horse, and a white horse, the artist's symbolic surrogate, seen through the window.

Titles:

Self-Portrait (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1937/1938

Creator Display:

Leonora Carrington (English painter, sculptor, and author, 1917-2011) [preferred]

artist Carrington, Leonora (English painter, sculptor, and author, 1917-2011) [500018196]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2002.456.1

Credit Line: The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002

Display Materials: Oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas paintings [300410350]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Dimensions: 25.562 x 32 inches (65 x 81.3 cm)

Cultures:

European (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	modern (generic time frame) [300379388] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <generic styles| periods| and cultures>)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

symbols (aboutness)

Specific Subjects:

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	rocking horse [300211216]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Recreational Artifacts (hierarchy name), recreational artifacts (equipment), toys (recreational artifacts), <toys by mode of operation>, riding toys) (AAT)

	horse (species) [300250148]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT)

	hyena [300310344]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order)) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance: the artist (at the onset of World War II, left with Ernst); Max Ernst, New York (until at least 1942; taken to New York in 1941; for safekeeping, given on an unknown date after December 1942 to Matisse); Pierre Matisse, New York (until d. 1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989–d. 2001); Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Self-Portrait	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 10 April 2017
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 10 April 2017
	........ Meecham and Sheldon, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (2005) 69

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 10 April 2017

....................... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 10 April 2017

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 10 April 2017
	..... Meecham and Sheldon, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (2005) 69