Rembrandt

Illustration number 0000255309
Dimensions: 538x650 pixels
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Illustration number IB00048026
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Illustration number 0000063109
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Illustration number 0000063044
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Illustration number 0000003136
Dimensions: 476x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000003135
Dimensions: 1857x2224 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: panel (oak), oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 23.4 x 19.5 cm

Current attribution: Rembrandt

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1628 (1628 - 1629)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Zelfportret
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Self portrait at an early age
English title: Self portrait
Genre: portrait
Keywords: man's portrait, young man, self-portrait, bust-length portrait, head to the right, body facing right, facing front, curly hair

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 48026

Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-04

Name

Rijn, Rembrandt van

Sex

Date/place of birth

Leiden (stad) 1606-07-15

Date/place of death

Amsterdam (stad) 1669-10-04

Occupation

Kunstschilder te Leiden en Amsterdam.

Marriage(s)

Sint Annaparochie 1634-06-27
Saskia van Uylenburgh

Identification based on: resemblance

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
after Rembrandt, Zelfportret
It was long thought that the painting in Kassel was the original painting and that the panel now in the Rijksmuseum was a copy. Since 1960 the painting of the Rijksmuseum is generally accepted as the original of the two (Bauch 1960, p. 174-175; Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-, vol. 1 (1982), no. A 14).
used as model for
attributed to Luca Giordano, Portret van Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Alexander Patterson, Glasgow (Scotland)
private collection James E. Mackay, Glasgow (Scotland)
private collection Mary A. Winter, Bearsden
by descent from her grandfather James E. Mackay
- 1959-05-27 sold at auction in Londen on 27 May 1959
art dealer/collection Daan Cevat, London/Worthing/Saint Peter Port
on loan to the Rijksmuseum between 1960 and 1971 (inventory number: SK-C-1457)
1959-05-27 - 1977 bought at auction in London on 27 May 1959
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A- 4691
with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop and the Ministerie van Cultuur, recreatie en maatschappelijk werk
1977 -

Auction(s)

Sotheby's, Londen (Engeland), Ged. Winter, 1959-05-27, lotnr. 135
Contributor: Mary A. Winter
Name buyer : D. Cevat, 1700

according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (RKD, The Hague), as 'after Rembrandt'

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

De schilder in zijn wereld : van Jan van Eyck tot van Gogh en Ensor Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof , Delft (city) , 1964-12-19 - 1965-01-24 , cat. no. 93
Rondom Rembrandt : de verzameling Daan Cevat Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal , Leiden (city) , 1968-04-11 - 1968-06-16 , cat. no. 35
Rembrandt and his pupils [Montreal, 1969] Montreal Museum of Fine Arts , Montreal (Canada) , 1969-01-19 - 1969-02-23 , cat. no. 5
Rembrandt after 300 years (Chicago) The Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago (Illinois) , 1969-10-25 - 1969-12-07 , cat. no. 1
Rembrandt : his teachers and his pupils Bunkamura Museum of Art , Tokyo (city) , 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-07 , cat. no. 2
Rembrandt : his teachers and his pupils Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art , Chiba (city) , 1992-06-13 - 1992-08-02 , cat. no. 2
Rembrandt : his teachers and his pupils Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art , Yamaguchi (city) , 1992-08-07 - 1992-09-16 , cat. no. 2
Rembrandt by himself National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1999-06-09 - 1999-09-05 , cat. no. 5
Rembrandt zelf Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 1999-09-25 - 2000-01-09 , cat. no. 5
Dutch masters from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne , 2005-06-24 - 2005-10-02 , p. 2-3
Rembrandt & Caravaggio Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam (city) , 2006-02-24 - 2006-06-18 , cat. no. 6
Jonge Rembrandt Museum De Lakenhal , Leiden (city) , 2019-11-02 - 2020-02-09 , cat. no. 1

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , not included
Bredius 1935 , not included
Bauch 1962A , p. 321-332
Delft 1964 , no. 93
Bauch 1966 , no. 287
Gerson 1968 , not included
Haak 1968 , p. 34
Leiden 1968 , no. 35
Judson 1969 , no. 1
Montreal 1969 , no. 5
Amsterdam 1977A , p. 120-122
Bruyn 1979 , p. 109
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 1 (1982), no. A 14
Hecht/Luijten 1986 , p. 199
Tümpel 1986 , no. 153
Van Thiel 1989 , p. 214-216
Chapman 1990 , p. 22-24, 34, 37, 38, 46, 71, 143 (note 54)
Lloyd Williams 1992 , p. 19
Tokyo 1992A , no. 2
Van Thiel et al. 1992 , p. 77
Slatkes 1992 , no. 235
White et al. 1999 , no. 5
Wadum 2000 , p. 173-175
Filedt Kok 2001 , no. 30
Priem/Benson 2005 , p. 2-3
Van Straten/Moerman 2005 , p. 101-102
Bull et al. 2006 , no. 6
Kloek 2006 , p. 202-204
Hecht 2008 , p. 147, 221
Hirschfelder 2008 , no. 386
Reynaerts/Versluis-van Dongen 2011 , p. 103-105
Bikker/Schapelhouman/Krekeler 2014 , p. 39
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 20
Müller 2015 , p. 68-69
Hadjinicolaou 2016 , p. 209, ill. 112 (color, detail)
Brown et al. 2019 , no. 1

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000255309)
BD/RKD/1818 - IB/XVIIB on Rijn (img.nr. IB00048026)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000063109)
, Original location BD/RKD/0704 - ONS/Artist's Portraits (img.nr. 0000063044)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000003136)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000003135)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
The Rembrandt Database
RemBench

Technical documentation

The RKD manages a collection of technical documentation that has been given to us by external researchers and museums or which stems from the RKD's own research with infrared reflectography. Documentation can be accessed by appointment at the RKD. While not all technical documentation has been entered in the database at present, new data is added on a regular basis.

15 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

Research and restoration projects

conservation, 1964 1 hitsinvolved_persons: Hendricus Hubertus Mertens
Filled, retouched and revarnished
study, 1965-01-26 4 hitsComparison between the Self Portrait in the Rijksmuseum and the 'Self Portrait' in Kassel.
exhibition Rembrandt by himself, 1999 — 2000 2 hits
involved_persons: Christopher White; Quentin Buvelot; Edwin Buijsen; Peter Schatborn; Ben Broos; Ariane van Suchtelen
The focus and aim of the exhibition were presenting the function of Rembrandt’s self portraits and the various ways in which Rembrandt represented himself.
Many paintings were studied with X-rays, UV, infrared light and normal light.

External links: Website museum

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