File:Self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn 1629.jpg

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Summary

Rembrandt: Self-portrait, bare-headed: bust, roughly etched (

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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, bare-headed: bust, roughly etched

Date

1629

Medium

etching print, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink

Dimensions

height: 18.2 cm (7.1 in); width: 15.6 cm (6.1 in)

Collection

British Museum

	Native name	British Museum
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W
	Established	1753
	Website	www.britishmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000000123428817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat

Accession number

1848,0911.19

Object history

by 1812: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (1751-1812)

Unknown date: inherited by Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (1786-1859)
1846: purchased by Woodburn from Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford (?)
1847: purchased by William Smith, the printseller (art dealer), London (?)

1848 (?): purchased by the British Museum, London, from William Smith, the printseller, London

Exhibition history

The etchings of James McNeill Whistler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 14 September 1984–11 November 1984, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 24 November 1984–13 January 1985, ISBN 0300032383 Invalid ISBN, ISBN 0300032757.
Rembrandt by himself, 5 June 1999–5 September 1999, National Gallery, London.

Rembrandt creates Rembrandt. Art and ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631, 21 September 2000–7 January 2001, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Inscriptions

Monogram and date top left:

RHL 1629

In reverse

verso:

2 Wtenbogaert / 2 Ulespiegels / 2 [..] solemans [?] printen [?]

References

British Museum, as Self-portrait of Rembrandt, bareheaded, bust in frontal view.

Source/Photographer

www.britishmuseum.org : Home : Info : Pic

Other versions

File:B338 Rembrandt.jpg
Version at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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