Self-Portrait, Abraham de Vries, 1621

Identification

Title(s)

Self-Portrait

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-2157

Inscriptions / marks

signature, date and inscription, upper right: ‘Hanc suam imaginem propria manu / depictam pergula huic iconibus / viventi ut parergon libenter / apposuit A. de Vries Batavus / anno 1621.’ (The Batavian A. de Vries gladly painted this, his image, with his own hand in the year 1621 as an embellishment for this workshop enlivened with images.)
inscription, lower left, on the book: ‘DE ARTE PICTURÆ / Optieen docta ab metrica Mathesia / Rhethoruqs ex fonte propriens decore / Gestuum hoc no monumenta ferurars / Historiarum / Podere exacto numitaqs justo / inqs mesura ΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ colorum / linquuia [...] / ponit amana / DE SŸMETRIA ET FLEXURIS PARTIUM MANI CORPORIS LIBRI’

Description

Zelfportret van de schilder Abraham de Vries. Staande, ten halven lijve, penseel in de linkerhand, palet en penselen in de rechterhand. Onderaan een tafel waarop een opengeslagen boek over de schilderkunst ligt, een passer en enkele andere voorwerpen.

Creation

Artist

painter: Abraham de Vries (signed by artist)

Dating

1621

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

support: height 79.5 cm × width 64.8 cm
outer size: depth 6.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Subject

What

Who

Abraham de Vries

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 1905

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; sale, Mercier (†), Paris (Joullain and Chariot), 16 December 1771 _sqq._, no. 29 (‘Le Pourtrait de A. de Vries, peint sur toile par lui-même en 1621, hauteur 29 pouces, largeur 22 pouces [78.3 x 59.4 cm]’), 30.12 livres, to the dealer François Joullain (1697-1778), Paris;{Copy RKD.}...; from Prof Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, fl. 1,200, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1905

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6494

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