Self-Portrait, Michiel van Musscher, 1685

Identification

Title(s)

Self-Portrait

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4232

Inscriptions / marks

date: ‘Aº 1685.’
inscription: ‘Dus heeft hier Muschers handt, deez Omtreck zelfs geg[even] / Tot een geheugenis, hoe zijn gedaente was / De Tijdt ondeckt hem wel, maer thoond' oock dat zijn glas, / Al veel verloopen is en leerd ons 't brosze leven.’

Description

Zelfportret van de schilder Michiel van Musscher. Zittend, ten halven lijve, in een venster gevormd door draperieën en een basement. Palet, penselen en schildersstok in de linkerhand. Links een bellen blazende putto, rechts staat de Tijd met zeis en zandloper. Pendant van SK-A-4233.

Creation

Artist

painter: Michiel van Musscher

Dating

1685

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height 20.5 cm × width 18 cm
depth 4.5 cm

Subject

What

Who

Michiel van Musscher

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1973

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer Ch. van der Heyden, Rotterdam, fl. 21,634.60, with SK-A-4233, to the museum, as a gift from the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1973

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Künstler im Spiegel einer Sammlung, Kirsten Ahrens, cat.nr. 146
Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Hendrik van Hall, p. 223, cat.nr. 1476:8
Andermaal Michiel van Musscher, Pieter J.J. van Thiel
R.E. Gerhardt, The Van Musscher Family of Artists, uit: Oud Holland, 120, 2007, 1/2, pagina 107-150 - p. 116(zie: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42712228)
M. Russel, The artist in his studio : A selfportrait by Michiel van Musscher, uit: Apollo : a journal of the arts, 1988, 1, pagina 9-15 - p. 12

Persistent URL

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