Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill
1639
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21 x 16.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.9117
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Catalogue Raisonné
White/Boon 1969, no. 21, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mariette (Lugt 1789); Karl Eduard von Liphart [1808-1891], Dupart, Bonn, and Florence (Lugt 1678); Siegfried Barden (Lugt 218 and 2756); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930
Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.
1932
Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 45.
1966
Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 103, repro.
1967
Master Prints on Biblical Themes, Sloan Galleries at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1967, no cat.
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. 171, state ii/ii.
2017
Ho, Angela K. Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention. Amsterdam, 2017: 151,152-153, fig. 48.
Inscriptions
upper left in plate: Rembrandt f / 1639
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65024914