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Self-portrait with a Skull
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1653-04-10
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1902-A-4624
- Dimensionsheight 208 mm x width 149 mm
- Physical characteristicsblack chalk, with oiled charcoal, on vellum; framing lines in brown and black ink
Identification
Title(s)
Self-portrait with a Skull
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1902-A-4624
Part of catalogue
Creation
Creation
draftsman (artist): Cornelis Visscher (II)
Dating
1653-04-10
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Material and technique
Physical description
black chalk, with oiled charcoal, on vellum; framing lines in brown and black ink
Dimensions
height 208 mm x width 149 mm
This work is about
Person
Subject
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
Acquisition
purchase 1902
Copyright
Provenance
…; sale, Johan van der Marck Ægzn (1707-72, Leiden), Amsterdam (H. de Winter and J. IJver), 29 November 1773 sqq., Album T, no. 1765 (‘Cornelis de Visser. Het Portrait van dien Meester; oud zynde 24 Jaar, halver Lyf, met een Doodshoofd in de regter hand; mede zeer uitvoerig en fraay met zwart Kryt op Perkament getekend, h. 8 b. 5¾ duim [203 x 146 mm]’), fl. 50, to Jacob de Vos (1735-1833), Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 30 October 1833 sqq., Album CC, no. 1 (‘Het Portret van Cornelis Visscher, ter halver lijve, houdende in de rechterhand een doodshoofd; aan een kolom staat: Aensien doet gedencken. Breed en meesterlijk met zwart krijt, op pergament, door hemzelven’), fl. 52, to the dealer A. Brondgeest, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Jan Gijsbert, Baron Verstolk van Soelen (1776-1845, The Hague and Soelen, near Tiel), Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 22 March 1847 sqq., Album I, no. 347 (‘Portrait de Corneille Visscher, tenant une tête de mort dans la main droite; sur la muraille on lit la devise: “Aanzien doet gedenken” (Souviens-toi de mourir). Dessin à la pierre d’Italie par Corneille Visscher’), fl. 101, to the dealer C.F. Roos for Gerard Leembruggen (1801-65), Amsterdam and Hillegom;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 5 March 1866 sqq., no. 727, fl. 100, to the dealer C.F. Roos, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Aarnout Jacobus van Eyndhoven (1805-61, Amsterdam and Zutphen) and J. Werneck (?-1893, Frankfurt-am-Main), Amsterdam (F. Muller) 23 June 1885 sqq., no. 318, fl. 220, to the dealer W.E. van Pappelendam, Amsterdam;{Copy RMA.} … ; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 705, fl. 148, to the dealer C.F. Roos for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1895; from whom, fl. 170.50, to the museum (L. 2228), 1902
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