Self-Portrait of Rembrandt, 1771

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Wessely 1887, no. 91, State i/ii

Accession Number

2017.13.4

Artists / Makers

Georg Friedrich Schmidt (artist) German, 1712 - 1775

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist after) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Perthuis, Roland de
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

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