Self-Portrait in a Group of Friends

Self-Portrait in a Group of Friends is an 1824 or 1827 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, now in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan.

[1] The other people in the painting have been identified as (starting from the left): the painters Giovanni Migliara, Pelagio Palagi, and Giuseppe Molteni, and the scholar Tommaso Grossi.

[1] The work is mentioned in Prospetto delle incisioni, quadri e oggetti d'arte a un prezzo d'acquisto (1853) as a "picture by Hayez in oils representing five portraits".

It was first exhibited to the public in 1883 as part of a monographic show of the artist's work, but then remained in a private collection until 1996, when it was left to its present owner on the death of Riccardo Lampugnani, who had obtained it from his grandfather Giuseppe Gargantini.

[2] The painting's composition, close viewpoint, and the artist's three-quarter pose facing the observer show the influence of the Self-Portrait in a Circle of Friends from Mantua executed by Peter Paul Rubens in 1602–1604.