copyright 2009, The Washington Post Among the recurring subjects in 'Matisse as Printmaker' is the artist's own face. There are six self-portraits on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, including two versions of a 1900-1903 etching and a 1944 lithograph. What's interesting is that, as closely and as tellingly as Matisse was able to peer into his subjects' faces -- even his own -- he was self-conscious when someone else was doing the looking. As the French photographer Brassai once noted about Matisse, whom he had shot, 'He searched for himself in his portrait and had difficulty finding himself -- if he appeared austere, he was belying his nature; if shown laughing, it looked like caricature.' 