Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle - painting by Arnold Böcklin. This painting is the 747^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 669^th most popular painting in English Wikipedia. Article “Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle” in English Wikipedia has 16 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle”, its content was written by 11 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 82 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle is on the 669^th place in local ranking of paintings in English Wikipedia and on the 747^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 69 times in English Wikipedia and cited 99 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #134720 in June 2023
• Global: #89357 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #71913 in October 2024
• Global: #85942 in April 2024

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		29.7521
2	Russian (ru) Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке		28.5551
3	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		27.9257
4	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		27.6744
5	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		21.6876
6	Swedish (sv) Självporträtt med den fiolspelande döden		19.522
7	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		15.9606
8	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		15.5408
9	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		14.2077
10	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		4.8398

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		237 109
2	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		83 417
3	Russian (ru) Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке		45 969
4	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		43 726
5	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		24 479
6	French (fr) Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon		13 291
7	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		4 362
8	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		2 937
9	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		2 854
10	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		1 182

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		5 680
2	Russian (ru) Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке		831
3	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		661
4	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		643
5	French (fr) Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon		614
6	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		531
7	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		66
8	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		51
9	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		23
10	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		19

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		27
2	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		11
3	Russian (ru) Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке		9
4	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		8
5	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		7
6	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		7
7	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		4
8	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		3
9	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		2
10	French (fr) Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		0
2	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		0
3	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		0
4	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		0
5	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		0
6	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		0
7	French (fr) Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon		0
8	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		0
9	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		0
10	Russian (ru) Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle		69
2	German (de) Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod		8
3	Swedish (sv) Självporträtt med den fiolspelande döden		5
4	Arabic (ar) صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)		4
5	Greek (el) Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή		3
6	French (fr) Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon		3
7	Spanish (es) Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín		2
8	Persian (fa) خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل		2
9	Italian (it) Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino		1
10	Dutch (nl) Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صورة شخصية مع الموت وهو يعزف على الكمان (لوحة)
de	German Selbstbildnis mit fiedelndem Tod
el	Greek Αυτοπροσωπογραφία με το Θάνατο Βιολιστή
en	English Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
es	Spanish Autorretrato con la Muerte tocando el violín
fa	Persian خودنگاره با مرگ در حال نواختن فیدل
fr	French Autoportrait avec la Mort jouant du violon
it	Italian Autoritratto con la Morte che suona il violino
nl	Dutch Zelfportret met vioolspelende dood
ru	Russian Автопортрет со Смертью, играющей на скрипке
sv	Swedish Självporträtt med den fiolspelande döden

Best Rank

English: #71913 10.2024

Global: #85942 04.2024

Best Rank

English: #134720 06.2023

Global: #89357 09.2021

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