Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume

1638

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.5 x 10.3 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 18 x 14.2 cm (7 1/16 x 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7201

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 20, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) purchased from Hollstein and Puppel Sale (lot #730); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

  • Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1932

  • Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.

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. 170, state ii/iii.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: Rembrandt f / 1638

Markings

Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b)

Watermarks

Foolscap

Wikidata ID

Q65024742

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