Self-Portrait Drawing at a Window, 1648

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and burin on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15.7 x 13 cm (6 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 22, State iii/v

Accession Number

1946.21.165

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: Rembrandt. f 1648

Provenance

Friedrich August II (Lugt 972); Hendrikus Egbertus Ten Cate [1868-1955], Almelo (Lugt 533b); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Richard Zinser 1946; given to the National Gallery of Art 1946

Associated Names

Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Ten Cate, Hendrikus Egbertus

Exhibition History

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 82, repro.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 54.

1969: Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 8, repro.

1969: Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 42, 44, repro.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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. 240, state iii/ix.