Self-Portrait in a Heavy Fur Cap

1631

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image is a bust-length view of a person facing slightly to the left. They have curly hair and wear a large hat with a fur collar. The person has a serious expression and is looking directly at the viewer. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 6.3 x 5.7 cm (2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 7.5 x 6.9 cm (2 15/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.479

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 16, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Verstolk van Soelen (Lugt 2490); Moriz de Fries (Lugt 2930); Verstolk van Soelen; Mortiz de Fries; Collection D'Arenberg (Lugt 567); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from William Schab 1951; given to the National Gallery of Art 1951

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 65, 63.

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. 80, state only.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: RHL (in monogram) 1631

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65364760

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