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Summary

Rembrandt: Self-portrait

Artist



Alternative names	Rembrandt van Rijn, Birth name: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Description	Dutch painter, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death	15 July 1606	4 October 1669
Location of birth/death	Leiden	Amsterdam
Work period	between circa 1625 and circa 1669 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Leiden (1620-1624), Amsterdam (1624-1625), Leiden (1625-1633), Amsterdam (1631-1669)
Authority file	: Q5598 VIAF: 64013650 ISNI: 0000000121363802 ULAN: 500011051 LCCN: n79142935 NLA: 35139809 WorldCat

Title

Self-portrait

Object type

painting

Genre

self-portrait

Depicted people

Rembrandt

Date

1669

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 65.4 cm (25.7 in); width: 60.2 cm (23.7 in)

Collection

Mauritshuis (Inventory)

	Native name	Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
	Location	Korte Vijverberg 8, The Hague
	Coordinates	52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E
	Established	1822
	Website	mauritshuis.nl
	Authority file	: Q221092 VIAF: 134457328 ISNI: 000000012288890X ULAN: 500307433 LCCN: n79026755 GND: 62314-3 WorldCat

Accession number

840

Place of creation

Amsterdam

Object history

10 May 1811: anonymous sale at Philips Auctioneerd, London (auction house), lot no. 68

by 1850: Joseph Neeld (1789-1856), London/Grittleton
from 1856 until 1885: John Neeld, Grittleton House, Grittleton, Category:Wiltshire
from 1885 until 1899: Sir Audley Dallas Neeld, 3rd Bt., Grittleton House, Grittleton, Category:Wiltshire

Unknown date: acquired by Robert Langton Douglas (art dealer), London

Unknown date: acquired by M. Knoedler & Co. (art dealer), London

by 1912: acquired by Marcus Kappel (1839-1919), Berlin

1930: acquired by Ernst G. Rathenau, Berlin, and Ellen Ettlinger-Rathenau (....-1994), Oxford/New York City

from 1925 until 1940: lent to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

1940: purchased by the Führermuseum, Linz, Inventory number 1434, through Dienststelle Kai Mühlmann, The Hague

Unknown date: transferred to a salt mine in Alt-Aussee

Unknown date: transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, inv. 1416/1

1947: purchased by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, from Ernst G. Rathenau and Ellen Ettlinger-Rathenau, Oxford/New York

Exhibition history

Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt. Winter exhibition, thirteenth year, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 January 1899–11 March 1899, cat. no. 4.

Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, May 1914, cat. no. 134.

Historische tentoonstelling. 650-jarig bestaan van Amsterdam 1275-1925, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 3 July 1925–15 September 1925, cat. no. 524.

Rembrandt tentoonstelling ter plechtige herdenking van het 300-jarig bestaan der Universiteit van Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 11 June 1932–4 September 1932, cat. no. 42.

Herwonnen Kunstbezit, 16 March 1946–May 1946, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, cat. no. 54.

Herwonnen Kunstbezit, 1 October 1946–30 October 1946, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Cat.no. 78.

Dutch painting, the Golden Age; an exhibition of Dutch pictures of the seventeenth century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1954–1955, OCLC 644452, p. 68.

Rembrandt. Sextiosex bilder från utställningen i Nationaluseum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 12 January 1956–15 April 1956, cat. no. 45.

Tentoonstelling van werken van Rembrandt en zijn school ter gelegenheid van het 350e jaar, sedert zijn geboortedag, 1956-1957, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, v, Moscow, p. 62.

Terre des Hommes/Man and his world, 1967, Montreal, Cat.no. 24.

The age of Rembrandt, 19 October 1968–22 December 1968, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 January 1969–2 February 1969, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Cat.no. 53.

Rembrandt 1669/1969, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 13 September 1969–30 November 1969, cat. no. 23.

1945-1970. Vijfentwintig jaar aanwinsten Mausritshuis, 19 October 1970–28 October 1970, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Rembrandt en zijn tijd, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, City of Brussels, 23 September 1971–21 November 1971, OCLC 63826891, cat. no. 84.

Mauritshuis, Dutch paintings of the Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, The Art Institute of Chigaco, Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1982-1983, cat. no. 30.

Dutch painting of the Golden Age from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, 24 April 1984–10 June 1984, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 June 1984–1 July 1984, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 21 July 1984–2 September 1984, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Cat.no. 31.

De Rembrandt à Vermeer, Grand Palais, Paris, 1986, Cat.no. 42.

Rembrandt, The master and his workshop, Altes Museum, Berlin, 12 September 1991–10 November 1991, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 4 December 1991–1 March 1992, National Gallery, London, 26 March 1992–24 May 1992, Cat.no. 51.

Rembrandt by himself/Rembrandt zelf, 5 June 1999–5 September 1999, National Gallery, London, 25 September 1999–9 January 2000, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, Cat.no. 86.

Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, 10 October 2002–26 January 2003, Cat.no. 37.

Rembrandt Rembrandt, 1 February 2003–11 May 2003, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Cat.no. 48.

Rembrandt? The Master and his Workshop, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 4 February 2006–14 May 2006, ISBN 9788790096519, cat. no. 20.

Inscriptions

Signature and date center left:

Rembrandt / f. 1669

References

Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Self-Portrait, 65.4 × 60.2 cm (25.7 × 23.7 in).

RKDimages, Art-work number 2949, as Self-Portrait, 65.4 × 60.2 cm (25.7 × 23.7 in)

Vereniging Rembrandt, as Zelfportret, 63.5 × 57.8 cm (25 × 22.7 in).

Database on the Sonderauftrag Linz, as Selbstbildnis mit Turban, 63.5 × 57.5 cm (25 × 22.6 in).

Web Gallery of Art, as Self-Portrait, 59 × 51 cm (23.2 × 20 in).

Source/Photographer

Geheugen van Nederland : Home : Info : Pic

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