Self-Portrait (?) with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre

1634

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image displays an etched portrait of a person with a neutral facial expression, long curly hair, wearing a cap with a feather, a dark textured garment with a layered collar, and a decorative band around the neck. The background features an oval shape enclosing the individual with subtle shading radiating outward from the subject.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate (oval): 13 x 10.6 cm (5 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 16.8 x 12.6 cm (6 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7256

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 23, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rilport in ink (Lugt undescribed); 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.

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. 135, state iii/iii.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate above arm: Rembrandt / f. 1634

Wikidata ID

Q65024862

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