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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.56
People
Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Bust of a Young Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1629
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228144

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions
22.9 x 18.3 cm (9 x 7 3/16 in.)
frame: 45.7 x 41.9 x 7 cm (18 x 16 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: monogramed and dated 1629

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[N. Beets, Amsterdam]. [Thomas Agnew & Sons, London]. Paul M. Warburg, New York 1926), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of James P. Warburg
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.56
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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)
  • Tom Rassieur and George S. Keyes, Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship, exh. cat., Skira Rizzoli (New York, NY, 2011), pp. 21, 101, 109 (note 25), cat. 5 p. 174, repr. p. 98 as pl. 22
  • Jeroen Giltaij, Het grote Rembrandt boek: Alle 684 schilderijen, WBOOKS (Zwolle, 2022), p. 21, no. 7, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
  • Rembrandt in America, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 10/30/2011 - 01/22/2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/19/2012 - 05/28/2012; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 06/24/2012 - 09/16/2012

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