Which Old Masters did Frida Kahlo study while recovering from her injuries?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

While recovering from the severe injuries she sustained in a 1925 bus accident, Frida Kahlo taught herself to paint and spent time reading and studying the art of the Old Masters.12

Her early work, such as Self-Portrait Wearing a Velvet Dress (1926), reflects this study. Specifically, the exaggeratedly long neck and fingers in that painting reveal her interest in the Mannerist painter Il Bronzino.1