Self-portrait

• Self-Portrait
• Self-portrait

BK-15116

Around 1600 Giambologna was considered the most famous sculptor active in Europe. The detailing of this polychromed plaster statue closely resembles that of his bronze self-portrait displayed nearby. Both versions would have been made from the same wax model.

sculptor: Giambologna, Florence

c. 1600

• height 15.3 cm x width 12.5 cm
• height 9 cm

purchase 1937

Public domain

...; from art dealer Herman Koster, Amsterdam, with BK-15117, fl. 40 for both, to the museum, 1937

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

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200115896