Rembrandt

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 52.7 x 42.7 cm
At some point in time the painting has been enlarged to c. 67.3 x 52.7 cm (Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 204). Already in the 19th century the painting had it's enlarged measurements, which can be decuced from the engraving made after it by Tomkins in 1817 (Ottley/Tomkins 1818, no. 66). These addition was probably removed during treatment by De Wild in 1933 (Edinburgh 1950, no. 30; Wright 1982, p. 31-32, 43, no. 45).

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed and dated lower right: Rembrandt / f.165[.]
The last digit of the date is illegible and has been read as a 5 (Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 204), a 7 (see for instance: Bauch 1966, no. 327; Erpel 1967, no. 90; Tümpel 1986, no. 170; Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 52) and a 9 (Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition), vol. 6 (1915), no. 553; Wright 1982, p. 31).

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. 1657 (1655 - 1659)

The last digit of the date is illegible and has been read as a 5 (Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 204), a 7 (see for instance: Bauch 1966, no. 327; Erpel 1967, no. 90; Tümpel 1986, no. 170; Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 52) and a 9 (Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition), vol. 6 (1915), no. 553; Wright 1982, p. 31). Most art-historians date the painting around 1657/1659 (Edinburgh 1950, no. 30; Thompson/Brigstocke 1978, p. 88; Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), no. IV 15).

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Zelfportret met baret en opstaande kraag
English title: Self Portrait with beret
Genre: portrait
Keywords: man's portrait, self-portrait, bust-length portrait, head to the right, body facing right, facing front, curly hair, moustache, soul patch, beret

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 61852

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.

copied in print by
Peltro William Tomkins, His own portrait
copied in print by
John Young (1755-1825)
mezzotint (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005). no. IV 15)
copied in print by
Charles George Lewis
mezzotint and engraving; inscribed: "Rembrandt Pinxt. – C.G.Lewis.Sculpt. / Rembrandt van Rhyn. / Engraved by Permission of Lord Francis Egerton. / From a Picture in the Bridgwater Collection, for Smith’s Catalogue Raisonné./ 1836" (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005). no. IV 15).

Provenance

Collection(s)

Private collection
Countess of Holderness
- 1802-03-06 date of auction
private collection Francis Egerton (3rd Duke of Bridgewater), London (England)
The painting was bought by Lord Gower at the auction of the countess of Holderness sale in 1802. According to Lloyd Williams he bought it on behalf of Francis Egerton, the third duke of Bridgewater (Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 52).
1802-03-06 - date of auction
private collection George Granville Leveson-Gower (1st Duke of Sutherland), Stafford House (London)
by descent to his son Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), no. IV 15)
private collection Francis Egerton (1st Earl of Ellesmere), Bridgewater House (London)
inherited from his father George Granville Leveson-Gower (Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 52)
mentioned as being in his possession in 1836 (Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 204)
private collection John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton (4th Earl of Ellesmere), Engeland
Mentioned in the collection catalogue of 1926 (London 1926, no. 186).
private collection John Egerton (6th Duke of Sutherland), Mertoun House (Saint Boswells)
John Egerton was also the 5th Earl of Ellesmere. He came into the possession of the painting by descent (Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 52).
National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh , inv./cat.nr NGL 072.46
1946 - on loan from the Duke of Sutherland

Auction(s)

Christie (London (England)) 1802-03-06, lotnr. 56
Contributor Countess of Holderness
Name buyer : lord Gower , 81.18 GBP

according to an annotation in a copy of the sale catalogue (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) , Lugt no. 6370: "His own portrait. A most striking Picture; a character, full of Energy and impressive Sensibility, painted in bold masterly Style. This Portrait may vie with the finest Works of Titian. Rembrandt was Born at Leyden, 1606, and Died at Amsterdam, aged 68"

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

An exhibition of paintings by Rembrandt National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh , 1950-08-20 - 1950-09-09 , cat. no. 30
Dutch pictures 1450-1750 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1952-11-22 - 1953-03-01 , cat. no. 180
Dutch art and Scotland : a reflection of taste National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh , 1992-08-13 - 1992-10-18 , cat. no. 52
Rembrandt by himself National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 1999-06-09 - 1999-09-05 , cat. no. 74, not part of the exhibition in The Hague
Facing the world : selfportraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei Scottish National Portrait Gallery , Edinburgh , 2016-07-16 - 2016-10-16 , cat. no. 8, not exhibited in the other venues of the exhibition
Rembrandt : Britain's discovery of the master Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh , 2018-07-07 - 2018-10-14 , cat. no. 16

Literature

Ottley/Tomkins 1818 , no. 66
Smith 1829-1842 , vol. 7 (1836), no. 204
London 1851A , no. 186
Waagen 1854 , vol. 2, p. 42
Moes 1897-1905 , vol. 2, no. 6693:54
London 1907 , no. 186
Rosenberg/Valentiner 1909 , p. 401
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 6 (1915), no. 553
London 1926 , no. 186
Bredius 1935 , no. 48
Edinburgh 1950 , no. 30
London 1952-1953 , no. 180
Van Gelder 1953 , p. 46
Bauch 1966 , no. 327
Erpel 1967 , no. 90
Gerson 1968 , no. 329
Bredius/Gerson 1969 , no. 48
Thompson/Brigstocke 1978 , p. 88
Wright 1982 , p. 31-32, 43, no. 45
Tümpel 1986 , no. 170
Lloyd Williams 1992 , no. 52, p. 128
Slatkes 1992 , no. 261
Edinburgh 1997 , p. 300
White et al. 1999 , no. 74
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 4 (2005), no. IV 15
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 6 (2015), no. 273
Eiling et al. 2016 , no. 8
Seifert et al. 2018 , no. 16

A selection of pictures from the Bridgewater house collection, Edinburgh 1945, no. 186

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001208764)
BD/RKD/1820 - IB/XVIIC on Rijn (img.nr. IB00061852)
, Original location BD/RKD/0612 - ONS/Portraits: Rembrandt and School (img.nr. 0000063083)
, Original location BD/RKD/0704 - ONS/Artist's Portraits (img.nr. 0000063052)

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