Self portrait, dated 1659
canvas, oil paint, 84.5 x 66 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
- dated 1659
- IB-number
- 37588
- 1st Represented
- Representative
Rembrandt van Rijn- Identification status
Current- Tribal name
Rijn- Birth
1606-07-15- Death
1669-10-04- Function
Kunstschilder te Leiden en Amsterdam.
- Title
- Self portrait
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 84.5 x 66 cm
- Artistic relationship
- Collection(s)
- George Montagu (1st Duke of Montagu 2nd creation)
from 1740 - Scott , Elizabeth (duchess of Buccleuch)
by descent from her father George Montagu (Wheelock, NGA online editions, accessed 2018-01-18) - John Charles Montagu (7th duke of Buccleuch and 9th duke of Queensberry)
by descent through the dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry (Wheelock, NGA online editions, accessed 2018-01-18)
until 1928 - P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd.
1928 - 1929 - Andrew W. Mellon
1929 - 1934 - A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
1934 - 1937 - National Gallery of Art (Washington) , inv./cat.nr. 1937.1.72
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
from 1937
- George Montagu (1st Duke of Montagu 2nd creation)
- Exhibitions
- Rembrandt : his pupils and followers, National Gallery of Ireland , 1996
no page or cat. numbers - Loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and etchings by Rembrandt and his circle, Art Institute of Chicago , 1935-12-19 - 1936-01-19, cat. no. 6
- Rembrandt : dipinti, incisioni e riflessi sul '600 e '700 italiano, Scuderie del Quirinale , 2002-10-05 - 2003-01-06, cat. no. 6D
- The thirteenth loan exhibition of Old Masters : paintings by Rembrandt, Detroit Institute of Arts , 1930-05-02 - 1930-05-31, cat. no. 62
- Late Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , 2015-02-12 - 2015-05-17, cat. no. 2
- Rembrandt : schilderijen bijeengebracht ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van Hare Majesteit Koningin Wilhelmina, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , 1898-09-08 - 1898-10-31, cat. no. 102
- Exhibition of the works of the Old Masters, together with works of Deceased Masters of the British School [1872], Royal Academy of Arts , 1872 - 1873, cat. no. 181
- Rembrandt's journey : painter, draughtsman, etcher, Museum of Fine Arts Boston , 2003-10-26 - 2004-01-18, cat. no. 215
- Rembrandt zelf, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , 1999-09-25 - 2000-01-09, cat. no. 73
- Exhibition of works by Rembrandt: winter exhibition, thirteenth year, Royal Academy of Arts (Londen), 1899-01-02 - 1899-03-11, cat. no. 6
- Rembrandt in America : collecting and connoisseurship, North Carolina Museum of Art , 2011-10-30 - 2012-01-22, cat. no. 34
- Dutch art and Scotland : a reflection of taste, National Gallery of Scotland , 1992-08-13 - 1992-10-18, cat. no. 53
- Rembrandt : the late works, National Gallery [London] , 2014-10-15 - 2015-01-18, cat. no. 2
- Rembrandt by himself, National Gallery [London] , 1999-06-09 - 1999-09-05, cat. no. 73
- Masterpieces of Art, New York World's Fair , 1939-05 - 1939-10, cat. no. 307
- A loan exhibition of sixteen masterpieces : being some paintings which have passed through the hands of M. Knoedler and Company during the past year, Gallery M. Knoedler, 1930-01-06 - 1930-01-18, cat. no. 8
- Rembrandt-tentoonstelling, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , 1935-07-13 - 1935-10-13, cat. no. 26
- Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art [Washington] , 1969-03-16 - 1969-05-11, cat. no. 19
- Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth-XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA, Hermitage , 1989, cat. no. 13
- Rembrandt : his pupils and followers, National Gallery of Ireland , 1996
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Smith 1829-1842, vol. 7 (1836), no. 215
- London 1872, no. 181
- Vosmaer 1868, p. 493
- Vosmaer 1877, p. 358, 560
- Bode 1883, p. 542, 585, no. 197
- Dutuit 1885, p. 43, 61, 70, no. 165
- Von Wurzbach 1886, no. 160
- Champlin/Perkins 1888, vol. 4, p. 24
- Michel 1893, p. 557
- Michel 1894, vol. 2, p. 235
- Bode/Hofstede de Groot 1897-1905, vol. 6 (1901), no. 431
- Moes 1897-1905, vol. 2 (1905), no. 60
- Michel 1898, p. 467-480
- Amsterdam 1898, no. 102
- Hofstede de Groot 1898, no. 33
- Mackay 1898, no. 12
- Hofstede de Groot 1899, no. 33
- Bell 1899, p. 83-84, 145
- London 1899, no. 6
- Rosenberg 1904, p. 217, 267
- Rosenberg 1906, p. 343, 404
- Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition), vol. 6 (1915), no. 554
- Bell 1901, p. 79-80, 126
- Rosenberg/Valentiner 1909, p. 403, 562
- Veth 1906B, p. 161-162
- Von Wurzbach 1906-1911, vol. 2 (1910), p. 402
- Graves 1913-1915, vol. 3 (1914), p. 1010
- Valentiner 1921, p. 403
- Knackfuss 1921, p. 162, ill. 176
- Charrington 1923, no. 49
- Valentiner 1930A, no. 62
- Valentiner 1931, no. 141
- Van Rijckevorsel 1932, p. 150
- Bredius 1935, no. 51
- Chicago 1935, no. 6
- Amsterdam 1935, no. 26
- Cortissoz 1937, p. 39
- Jewell 1937, p. 82
- New York 1939, no. 307
- Washington 1941, no. 72
- Borenius 1942, no. 81
- Washington 1942, no. 72, ill. 29, 240
- Benesch 1943, p. 20-33, ill. 11
- Washington 1945A, p. 98
- Rosenberg 1948, vol. 1, p. 30-31
- Washington 1949, no. 72
- Shapley/Shapley 1959, ill. 78
- Marx 1960, p. 13, 64, 96
- Rosenberg 1964, p. 47
- Walker 1964, no. 72
- Washington 1965, p. 109
- Bauch 1966, no. 330
- Rosenberg/Slive/Ter Kuile 1966, p. 71-72, ill. 50
- Erpel 1967, p. 46, 184, ill. 56
- Gerson 1968, no. 376
- Washington 1968, p. 97
- Bredius/Gerson 1969, no. 51
- Haverkamp-Begemann 1969, no. 19
- Roberts 1972A, p. 353-354
- Walker 1975, no. 357
- Bolten/Bolten-Rempt 1978, no. 486
- Clark 1978, p. 30-31, ill. 26
- Wright 1982, p. 32, ill. 88
- Schwartz 1984, no. 417
- Jackson-Stops 1985, no. 292
- Tümpel 1986, no. A 72
as studio of Rembrandt - Guillaud/Guillaud 1986, no. 739
- Sutton 1986, p. 314
- Fredericksen 1991, p. 116
- Slatkes 1992, no. 263
- Van Thiel 1992, no. 102
- Lloyd Williams 1992, no. 53
- Wheelock 1995, p. 261-265, ill. 263
- Genet 1995, p. 94
- Slive 1995A, p. 85-86
- Fleischer/Scott 1997, ill. 1-5
- Wheelock 1997A, no. 1-5
- White 1999B, no. 73
- Wetering e.a 2001, p. 115-116, ill. 29
- Hinterding 2002, no. 6D
- Schneider 2002, p. 115-116
- Ackley et al. 2003, no. 215
- Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 4 (2005), no. IV 18
- Rønberg/Pedersen/Van de Wetering 2006, p. 45, ill. 8
- Weller et al. 2011, no. 34, ill. 9
- Wheelock 2012, p. 12-29
- Bikker/Schapelhouman/Krekeler 2014, p. 46-47, no. 2
- Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015, vol. 6 (2015), no. 274
- Other literature
- P. Kopper, America's National Gallery of Art: A gift to the nation, New York 1991, p. 21
- J. Dworetzky, Psychology, 1997, no. 452-453
- C. Wright, Rembrandt and his art, Londen/New York 1975, p. 98-99, ill. 80
- R. Watson, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York 1979, p. 69, ill. 54
- T. Baird, Dutch painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1960, p. 8, 14-15 (booklet number seven in ten schools of painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
- Nicholas H.J. Hall ed., Colnaghi in America: A survey to commemorate the first decade of Colnaghi New York, New York 1992, p. 24, ill. 24
- E. Dencker, exh. cat., In pursuit of the butterfly: Portraits of James McNeill Whistler, Washington (Seattle) (National Portrait Gallery) 1995, p. 59-61
- D. Meldrum, Rembrandt's painting, with an essay on his life and work, New York 1923, p. 137, 199, fig. 339
- National Gallery of Art. European paintings: An illustrated catalogue, Washington 1985, p. 328
- National Gallery of Art. Favorite paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., New York 1946, p. 47-49
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- H. Cairns ed., A pageant of painting from the National Gallery of Art, New York 1966, vol. 1, p. 232
- G.K. Fiero, Faith, reason and power in the early modern world. Humanist tradition 4, New York 1998, p. 54, ill. 22.13
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- F. Rutter, 'Notes from abroad', International Studio 91 (1929), p. 64-67
- R. Pelfrey, M. Hall-Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media, New York, 1985, p. 97
- Manuscript list of pictures at Montagu House, Whitehall. Boughton House, Northamptonshire, c. 1770, unpaginated
- E. Zafran, Exhibition brochure. Rembrandt's people, Hartford (Wadsworth Atheneum) 2009, no. 3
- M. Stokstad, Art History, New York 1995, p. 792, ill. 19-50
- C. Neumann, Rembrandt, Berlin 1902, p. 488
- R. Tansey, F.S. Kleiner, Gardner's art through the ages, Forth Worth 1996, p. 859, ill. 24.50
- J.O. Hand, National Gallery of Art: Master paintings from the collection, Washington/New York 2004, no. 156
- C. Neumann, Rembrandt, Munich 1922, vol. 2, p. 540, 542
- J. Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York 1984, no. 351
- National Gallery of Art. European paintings: An illustrated summary catalogue, Washington 1975, p. 284
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