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Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill

Self Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Date1639
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsImage: 5 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (14.9 × 16 cm)
Plate: 8 1/8 × 6 7/16 in. (20.6 × 16.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 9/16 in. (21 × 16.6 cm)
Credit LineMrs. F. F. Prentiss Bequest
Object number1944.63
Status
Not on view
More Information
This is perhaps the most formal and ambitious of Rembrandt's twenty-eight etch self-portraits. He based his elegant post and luxurious costume on a portrait by Titian, then thought to represent the Renaissance poet and courier Ariosto. In so doing, he vividly invested his own image as artist with intellectual and gentlemanly connotations
Exhibition History
Rembrandt Prints
  • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (April 7, 1969 - May 4, 1969 )
The Minotaur and the Light: Sources for Picasso c. 1935
  • The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (November 20, 1985 - December 29, 1985 )
Saving Face: The Portrait
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 5, 1986 - September 28, 1986 )
Seventeenth Century Dutch Prints
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 13, 1987 - April 26, 1987 )
Netherlandish Portrait Prints from the Allen Memorial Art Museum Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 20, 1993 - May 30, 1993 )
Rembrandt's 'Portrait of Joris de Caullery' in Context
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 14, 1998 - May 31, 1998 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
A Passion for Prints: Works from the Elesh Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - May 26, 2024 )
Collections
  • European
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