Self-portrait

• Self-Portrait at an Early Age
• Self Portrait
• Self-portrait

Self-Portrait at an Early Age

SK-A-4691

Even as an inexperienced young artist, Rembrandt did not shy away from experimenting. Here the light glances along his right cheek, while the rest of his face is veiled in shadow. It takes a while to realize that the artist is gazing intently out at us. Using the butt end of his brush, Rembrandt made scratches in the still wet paint to accentuate the curls of his tousled hair.

The Rembrandt Database, Object information, Rembrandt, Self portrait, c. 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A- 4691, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2943/self-portrait, accessed 2016 February 01

painter: Rembrandt van Rijn

c. 1628

olieverf op paneel

• height 22.6 cm x width 18.7 cm
• height 33.2 cm x width 29.3 cm x depth 5.9 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum and the ministerie van CRM

purchase 1977

Public domain

...; collection Dr Alexander Patterson (1835-1909), Glasgow; ...; collection James E. Mackay, Glasgow; by descent to his granddaughter Mary A. Winter, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire;{For the provenance of the painting in Scotland see especially Lloyd Williams 1992, p. 19.} sale, Lady Sturley, Mrs S. Radcliffe et al. [section 'other properties' (Mrs Mary A. Winter)], London (Sotheby's), 27 May 1959, no. 135, as 'after Rembrandt', £ 1,700, to the dealer D.H. Cevat, St Peter Port, Guernsey; from whom on loan to the museum, 1960-71 (SK-C-1457); from whom, fl. 1,800,000, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhardfonds, the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, and the Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk, 1977

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.

The Rembrandt Database, Object information, Rembrandt, Self portrait, c. 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A- 4691, http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2943/self-portrait, accessed 2016 February 01

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200107941