Self-portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1628

Identification

Title(s)

Self-portrait
Self Portrait

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4691

Description

Zelfportret van Rembrandt op jeugdige leeftijd. Buste naar rechts, het gelaat in de schaduw, met krullend haar.

Creation

Artist

painter: Rembrandt van Rijn

Dating

c. 1628

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 22.6 cm × width 18.7 cm
height 33.2 cm × width 29.3 cm × depth 5.9 cm

Subject

What

portrait, self-portrait of painter

Who

Rembrandt van Rijn

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum and the ministerie van CRM

Acquisition

purchase 1977

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; collection Dr Alexander Patterson (1835-1909), Glasgow; ...; collection James E. Mackay, Glasgow; by descent to his granddaughter Mary A. Winter, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire;{For the provenance of the painting in Scotland see especially Lloyd Williams 1992, p. 19.} sale, Lady Sturley, Mrs S. Radcliffe et al. [section 'other properties' (Mrs Mary A. Winter)], London (Sotheby's), 27 May 1959, no. 135, as 'after Rembrandt', £ 1,700, to the dealer D.H. Cevat, St Peter Port, Guernsey; from whom on loan to the museum, 1960-71 (SK-C-1457); from whom, fl. 1,800,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhardfonds, the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, and the Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1977

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

1600-1700, Gregor J.M. Weber, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Jonathan Bikker, cat.nr. 40
1600-1700, Gregor J.M. Weber, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Jonathan Bikker, cat.nr. 40
Late Rembrandt, Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J.M. Weber, Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, Marijn Schapelhouman, Anna Krekeler, Christopher White, afb. 13, p. 39
Ontmoet Rembrandt : leven en werk van de meesterschilder, p. 7, afb. 1
125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit : met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, p. 147, 221, afb. 205
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1600-1700, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Reinier J. Baarsen, Bart Cornelis, Jan Daniël van Dam
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 77
A corpus of Rembrandt paintings, J. Bruyn, D. Cook-Radmore, Karin Groen, L. Peese Binkhorst-Hoffscholte, Ernst van de Wetering
De zichtbare Rembrandt, Wouter Theodoor Kloek
A portrait of the artist an a young man : Edgar Degas inspired by Rembrandt, Jenny Reynaerts, Stella Versluis-van Dongen
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 120-122, afb. 1
The Rembrandt Database, Object information, Rembrandt, Self portrait, c. 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A- 4691, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2943/self-portrait, accessed 2016 February 01

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5236

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