Which female pharaoh had herself depicted with a beard in statuary?

Hatshepsut was the female pharaoh depicted wearing the traditional false beard in royal statuary.

The beard did not mean that Egyptian artists believed Hatshepsut was biologically male. It was a visual attribute of kingship. Egyptian rulers, including male pharaohs, wore ceremonial false beards to associate themselves with divine and royal power, especially the god Osiris. Hatshepsut adopted the same imagery to present herself as the legitimate king of Egypt.

Her statues sometimes combine traditionally feminine and masculine features. Earlier images may show her in queenly clothing, while later official portraits use the nemes headcloth, shendyt kilt, uraeus cobra and false beard associated with male pharaohs. These images communicated political status rather than personal identity in the modern sense.

Hatshepsut first served as regent for her young stepson, Thutmose III, after the death of Thutmose II. She later assumed the full office of pharaoh and ruled during the prosperous Eighteenth Dynasty. Her major monuments include the mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari and extensive building work at Karnak. Some statues and inscriptions were damaged or hidden after her death, although much of her legacy survived.