Self-portrait open mouthed, as if shouting: bust, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Title(s)

Self-portrait open mouthed, as if shouting: bust

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1961-979

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 67-2(3)
• Bartsch 13-2(3)
• Hollstein Dutch 13-2(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• monogram and date: ‘RHL 1630’
• number: ‘18’
• inscription: ‘VW met horizontale streep erdoor’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

1630

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 73 mm × width 62 mm

What

• portrait, self-portrait of graphic artist

Who

• Rembrandt van Rijn

Credit line

• Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1961

Copyright

Public domain

• Rembrandt / compiled by Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Jaco Rutgers, Erik Hinterding, Ger Luijten, dl. I, p. 100, cat.nr. 67
• The visible world : Samuel van Hoogstraten's art theory and the legitimation of painting in the Dutch Golden Age, Beverley Jackson, Lynne Richards, Thijs Weststeijn, p. 183, fig. 68
• Rembrandt Caravaggio, Duncan Bull, Taco Dibbits, p. 46, afb. 33
• Dutch and flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, cat.nr. 13