Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill

1639

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image shows a portrait of a person seated, turned slightly to the side but facing forward. The person has facial hair, long curly hair under a hat, and wears a textured garment. Their arms are crossed in front of them, with embroidery visible on a sleeve. In the background, there is a blank surface, with an artist's inscription in the upper left corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.6 × 16.3 cm (8 1/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 21 × 16.8 cm (8 1/4 × 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.52

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 21, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Mariette II (Lugt 1789); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1937 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 162, repro.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

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. 171, state ii/ii.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: Rembrandt f / 1639; lower right, in brown ink: P. Mariette 1667; verso, at center in brown ink: P. Mariette 1667

Watermarks

Basilisk

Wikidata ID

Q65082108

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