Self-Portrait of Rembrandt

1771

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist After, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Georg Friedrich Schmidt, after Rembrandt van Rijn

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.5 × 12.5 cm (6 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.8 × 13 cm (6 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.13.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wessely 1887, no. 91, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roland de Perthuis, Paris [born 1927] (Lugt 4237). (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased by NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1887

  • Wessely, Joseph Eduard. Georg Frederic Schmidt. Verzeichniss seiner Stiche und Radirungen. Hamburg, 1887: no. 91, i/ii

Inscriptions

upper left in image: Rembrandt se ipsum pinxit / G. F. Schmidt fec aqua for. / 1771; lower center in plate: Dèdié à Monsieur B. N. Le Sueur; par son ami Schmidt; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: /220---/ TX

Wikidata ID

Q77258774

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