Where is rembrandts self portrait

Dating c. Physical features oil on panel. Material panel oil paint paint. Measurements height What portrait, self-portrait of painter. Who Rembrandt van Rijn. Acquisition purchase Copyright Public domain. Notes Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years and could therefore be incomplete. Related Portret van Rembrandt op jeugdige leeftijd. Weber, Reinier J. Bruyn, D. Cook-Radmore, Karin Groen, L.

Do you have a remark or extra information on this object? Please let us know! Back to top. Samuel van Hoogstraten, who studied with Rembrandt in the s and wrote a manual on painting in the s, recommended that artists learn to depict expression by mugging in a mirror. In this likeness, Rembrandt may well have been doing just that. The shaded eyes, the parted lips, and the low, slightly angled vantage point invite a dynamic and somewhat unsettling interaction with the viewer.

This painting and others were copied and emulated by Rembrandt's followers, turning the art of self-portrayal into a specialty valued by collectors as a display of both personality and technique. Possibly sale at Pieter Locquet, Amsterdam, 22 September , lot no.

Self-Portrait Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, In this way he placed himself outside his own time, as it were. In this self-portrait, he wears a cap of a striped material that was then considered typically Oriental and must have given the depiction a somewhat exotic character.

An X-radiograph reveals, however, that Rembrandt initially wore a white cap, a linen mansmuts , which in the seventeenth century was worn only at home.

Rembrandt probably made a rapid depiction of what he saw in the mirror, before choosing the kind of headgear he would wear in the final self-portrait. For a long time, the painting in the Mauritshuis was the only self-portrait of Rembrandt known for certain to date from the year of his death.

This prompted romantic reflections on the lonely painter, who felt the end nearing. Just how shaky such interpretations can be was shown when the same date, , was discovered on a self-portrait in the National Gallery in London, which had been assigned, until then, a much earlier date. No sign of weariness had ever been detected in that painting. Rathenau and E. Multimediatour Mauritshuis. English EN. Tickets English EN Search. Rembrandt van Rijn Self-Portrait.