Self-portrait

• Self Portrait
• Self-portrait

SK-A-4857

The promising painter Wouter van Troostwijk is said to have died young from a cold he caught while drawing outside at night. An artist’s life could hardly end more romantically! His atelier is pictured in this informal self-portrait, which he made shortly before his death. Grouped together on top of the cupboard are plaster casts of Classical sculptures, the models traditionally used by a painter.

A. Quarles van Ufford, 'Kunstenaars & liefhebbers, kunst uit de tijd van de Verlichting' , Museumtijdschrift, nr. 3 (2007), p. 20-23, p.21 (afb.)

painter: Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk

c. 1809

olieverf op papier op karton op paneel

height 51.3 cm x width 40 cm

purchase 1988

Public domain

? collection of the artist; ? his brother, Hendrik Jacob Doude van Troostwijk (1783-1859); ? his daughter, Cornelia Antoinetta Doude van Troostwijk (1814-74); ? her son, Willem Isaäc Doude van Troostwijk (1838-1911); ? his son, Hendrik Jacob Doude van Troostwijk (1862-1925); his son, Anthony Hendrik Doude van Troostwijk (1893-1962), Breukelen, 1938, 1952;{Utrecht 1938, p. 69, no. 440; Amsterdam 1952, p. 82, no. 171.} his son, Herre Hendrik Jan Doude van Troostwijk (1932-2003), Breukelen; from whom on loan to the museum, 1987 (inv. no. SK-C-1620); from whom, fl. 38,000, to the museum, 1988

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• A. Quarles van Ufford, 'Kunstenaars & liefhebbers, kunst uit de tijd van de Verlichting' , Museumtijdschrift, nr. 3 (2007), p. 20-23, p.21 (afb.)
• J. de Vries, Vaderlandsche letteroefeningen, 1815, dl. 2, p. 233-245.

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