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

1634

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts a portrait of an individual, shown from the chest upwards. The person is facing slightly to the right, with the head turned towards the viewer. They have long, curly hair and a beard, with prominent facial features including a mustache and full cheeks. The person is wearing a dark garment with a high, ruffled collar and a chain around the neck, as well as a cap with a feather. The background is plain with etched lines, and the portrait is in an oval frame with the signature "Rembrandt f. 1634."

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    plate (oval): 13 x 10.6 cm (5 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
    sheet (octagon): 15.3 x 12.8 cm (6 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1955.6.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H (probably Lugt 1279)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Rembrandt Etchings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961, no cat.

1972

  • Rembrandt, Master Etcher: A Study Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, 1972., no. 4.

1977

  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections [complementary installation], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1977.

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

Watermarks

Basilisk (cf. Heawood 842)

Wikidata ID

Q65364802

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