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Self Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress

Print
1642 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rembrandt painted and drew a great many records of his own features, now highly prized for their penetrating introspection. These earlier flamboyant self-images contrasts strongly with the more low-key self-portraits of almost a decade later.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Self Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress (published title)
  • Rembrandt in a Flat Cap with a Shawl About his Shoulders (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
etching
Brief description
Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 'Self portrait in a flat cap and embroidered dress', first state. Amsterdam, 1642.
Physical description
Etching depicting a man wearing a flat cap and an embroidered top.
Dimensions
  • Height: 3.635in
  • Width: 2.375in
  • Height: 9.2cm
  • Width: 6.1cm
  • Height: 9.5cm (trimmed to)
  • Width: 6.4cm (trimmed to)
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Rembrandt f. [barely visible] (Signed very faintly [full inscription in White and Boon not visible on ours])
Credit line
Given by the Reverend Francis Palgrave and Miss Annora Palgrave
Subjects depicted
Summary
Rembrandt painted and drew a great many records of his own features, now highly prized for their penetrating introspection. These earlier flamboyant self-images contrasts strongly with the more low-key self-portraits of almost a decade later.
Associated object
Bibliographic references
  • Taken from V&A Internal Catalogue
  • Bartsch, Adam von. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt (Vienna, 1797). B.26.
  • White, Christopher and Boon, Karel G. Rembrandt's Etchings: an Illustrated Critical Catalogue. (Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co; London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1969).
  • Charles Blanc. L'Oeuvre complet de Rembrandt décrit et commenté. Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes du maître et de ses peintures. 2 vols. (Paris, 1759-1861).
  • Charles H. Middleton. Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Rembrandt van Ryn. (London, 1878).
  • D. Rovinski. L'Oeuvre gravé de Rembrandt. (St. Petersburg, 1890).
  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. (London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923).
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1942, London: HMSO, 1955.
  • Taken from EID Register 1941-1942
  • Biörklund George. Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False: A Summary Catalogue in a Distinctive Chronological Order and Completely Illustrated , (Stockholm, London & Paris, 1955) (2nd ed. 1968)
Collection
Accession number
E.7-1942

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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