Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill

1639

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

This print shows a man from the waist up, his body turned to the left and his head facing us, with his bent arm resting on a ledge or low wall. The man has pale skin, long, curly hair, and a curving mustache with a pointed beard. He wears a soft hat on his head at an angle, and he is dressed in a textured robe with decorative patterns. The man has a furrowed brow and a neutral expression. The background is plain, and the print is signed "Rembrandt 1639" at the top left.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21 x 16.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9117

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 21, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mariette (Lugt 1789); Karl Eduard von Liphart [1808-1891], Dupart, Bonn, and Florence (Lugt 1678); Siegfried Barden (Lugt 218 and 2756); Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); given to the National Gallery of Art 1943

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930

  • Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1932

  • Etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Art Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1932.

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 97.

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 45.

1966

  • Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 103, repro.

1967

  • Master Prints on Biblical Themes, Sloan Galleries at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1967, no cat.

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 171, state ii/ii.

2017

  • Ho, Angela K. Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention. Amsterdam, 2017: 151,152-153, fig. 48.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: Rembrandt f / 1639

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65024914

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