Rembrandt

Self-Portrait



Rembrandt - Self-Portrait



Rembrandt
Self-Portrait
1659
84 x 66 cm.
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, center left: Rembrandt ƒ. 1659
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 554
Bredius 51
Bauch 330 info
Gerson 376
Bredius/Gerson 51 info
Tümpel A72 (as Rembrandt workshop)
Corpus IV 18
Corpus VI 274 info
Manuth 167
Giltaij 63

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 261-265
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 351

Literature
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt in nieuw licht, Amsterdam, 2009, fig. 209
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 52b (detail)
Ernst van de Wetering, Rembrandt, Amsterdam, 2016], fig. 199 (detail)
Larry Silver, Rembrandt's Holland, London, 2018, fig. 2
Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt in a red beret, Zwolle, 2022, fig. 136



Provenance

John Charles, 7th Duke of Buccleuch
with P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., New York, 1928
with Knoedler & Co., New York, sold January 1929 to Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, 1929-34
deeded 28 December 1934 to the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1941
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