NEW YORK, NY.- The upcoming display of drawings, prints, and illustrated books in the Johnson Galleries will offer a rich presentation of artists’ portraits and self-portraits, both drawings and prints, dating from the early sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Among the highlights to be included are: a self-portrait by the Northern Renaissance master Simon Bening, showing the artist in his light-filled studio, interrupting work on a manuscript page pinned to his desk as he removes his eyeglasses to peer at the viewer; Rembrandt’s etched self-portrait, in which he dons the elegant attire and refined, self-possessed attitude of a Renaissance courtier; and Seurat’s masterful and monumental study, rendered with the silken, dark tonality of his favorite graphic medium, Conté crayon, of his friend and fellow painter Aman-Jean, absorbed in his artistic labor. Innovative currents in early sixteenth-century Netherlandish art—a reflection of influences absorbed from Italian and