In the summer of 1902, Corinth painted Charlotte for the first time, and the couple traveled to Pomerania together. That autumn they became engaged. Charlotte had already become Corinth’s muse and preferred model, as she was to remain for the rest of his life... Charlotte Berend and Lovis Corinth married in the spring of 1903. He was 44, she was only 22. In the autumn of the following year, their first child, Thomas, was born, and in 1909 their daughter Wilhelmina. Self-portrait with Model (1903) is the couple’s second joint portrait, and the first after their marriage. This time her pose refers to the classical images of muses by Rubens and Ingres, alluding to the story of Pygmalion. Corinth was a left-handed painter, so this image has not been painted directly from a mirror. He may well have used photographs instead. (https://eclecticlight.co/2017/01/10/changing-times-lovis-corinth-1901-1904/)