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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.6
People
Workshop of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Previously after(?) Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227853

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 x 67.2 cm (29 1/2 x 26 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
August Sulkowski Collection, Poland (1729-1780). Marchese Guido Serra di Cassano, London, 1921. W. R. Mitchell, Esq., Glasgow, by 1938, by descent; to Mrs. W. R. Mitchell, gift; to The Fairbridge Society, sold [through Christie's, London July 10, 1953, lot 77]; to Loughlin. G. Farkas, New York [Matthiessen Gallery, London], sold; to private collector, Montreal, 1959, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Roger Fry, "A Self-Portrait by Rembrandt", The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (June 1921), Vol. 38, No. 218, pp. 260, 262-263, pp. 260, 262-263, repr. as frontispiece
  • William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt: Wiedergefundene Gemälde (1910-1920), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, 1921), repr., plate 95 and 96
  • William R. Valentiner, Rembrandt: Wiedergefundene Gemälde (1910-1922), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Berlin, 1923), p. 103, repr.
  • Abraham Bredius, ed., The Paintings of Rembrand, Phaidon Press (London, 1937), no. 57, repr.
  • Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1938), p. 64, cat. no. 122
  • Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750: Winter Exhibition, 1952-3, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 1952), p. 42, cat. no. 184
  • Important Pictures by Old Masters and Pictures and Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1953), p. 27, lot 77, repr.
  • Christopher Wright, Rembrandt: Self-Portraits, Gordon Fraser Gallery (London, 1982), p. 44, no. 53, repr. as pl. 93
  • Josua de Bruyn and Ernst van de Wetering, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings: 1635-1642, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague and Boston, MA, 1986), vol. IV, no. IV22, pp. 534-537, repr.; pp. 126-129, repr. in color figs. 60, 68
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges, exh. cat., Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario, 2019), p. 116, repr. as fig. 57
  • Jeroen Giltaij, Het grote Rembrandt boek: Alle 684 schilderijen, WBOOKS (Zwolle, 2022), p. 57, no. 69, repr.
  • Petra Kayser, ed., Rembrandt: True To Life, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Victoria, 2023), pp. 243-244, repr. p. 244

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, 01/03/1938 - 03/12/1938
  • Dutch Pictures, 1450-1750, Royal Academy of Arts, 11/22/1952 - 03/01/1953

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