Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed

1630

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Rembrandt van Rijn

Attributed to

Printed with black ink on ivory-white paper, the round face of a young man with wide open eyes and pursed lips almost fills this vertical etching. His face and hair are rendered in detail but only a few details of his clothing are sketched in. He appears to look at us from over his left shoulder with his head tipped very slightly back. His eyebrows are raised and gathered together, and the whites of his eyes show over his irises. He has a rounded nose, and his pursed lips are slightly parted under a wispy mustache. His short hair curls out from under a dark, floppy cap.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 5.2 x 4.5 cm (2 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7264

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 320, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Mathey (Lugt 2100b); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Adriaen Brouwer: Youth Making a Face, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996.

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. 69, state ii/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q65024876

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