Self-Portrait, c. 1641

Not on View

Medium

black chalk with touches of red chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 31 x 22 cm (12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1984.47.1

Artists / Makers

Sir Peter Lely (artist) English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left illegible signature as noted by Sotheby's: P.L.; on verso inscriptions in pen & brown ink covered by mount (transcribed by Sotheby's as "d" and "026")

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (Lugt 2170). (Sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1983, no. 97). Acquired 1984 by NGA.

Associated Names

Morton Morris & Company Ltd.

Exhibition History

1987: English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.