Self-Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face Dark, 1633

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.6 x 10.7 cm (5 3/8 x 4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 17, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1946.21.166

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: .Rembrandt f.1633.; later hand, lower left in brown ink: 22

Marks and Labels

recto, stamped in black ink at upper right corner: Sir Edward Astley (L.2775); verso, stamped in black ink: Ernst Theodor Rodenacker (L.2438); verso, stamped in black ink: Arkady Alferoff (L.1727); verso, stamped in purple ink: Henry Studdy Theobald (L.1375); verso, stamped in blue ink: Carl Schlosser (L.636)

Provenance

Sir Edward Astley (Lugt 2775), Alferoff (Lugt 1727); Rodenacker (Lugt 2438); Schlösser (Lugt 636); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Parke-Bernet through Rosenbach, 1946; given to the National Gallery of Art, 1946.

Associated Names

Alferoff, Arkady Nikolaevitch
Hastings, Edward Astley 4th Baron,, Sir
Rodenacker, Ernst Theodor
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schlösser, Carl

Exhibition History

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 120, state ii/v.