Self-Portrait etching at a window, 1648

Blatt: 158 x max. 134 mm
Platte / Stein: 156 x 129 mm

Physical Description: Etching, dry-point and etching needle

Inventory Number: 61530

Object Number: 61530 D

Acquisition: Alter Bestand (Sammlungen J. F. Städel oder J. G. Grambs)

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

In a 1639 self-portrait Rembrandt adopted the pose of the extravagant parvenu. A decade later, in his last official self-portrait, an etching from 1648, we see him as a serious artist concentrating on his work - probably an etching. He is dressed in a mantle and hat of the kind he wore in his studio. Rembrandt has built up the delicate intermediate facial tones in a layered combination of etching with a burin and dry-point technique. His face emerges from the darkness through the light streaming in from the left.

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ASK AN ARTWORK – Fragen an die Kunst: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Mit seinem Blick zieht uns Rembrandt in seinen Bann. Wie hat er diese Wirkung erzeugt? Und was steht da eigentlich auf der Gardine geschrieben? In der Serie ASK AN ARTWORK beantwortet die Kunsthistorikerin Anna Huber (Mitarbeiterin der Abteilung Bildung und Vermittlung) Fragen, die wir an die Kunst haben. Denn während der Coronakrise kommt das Städel zu euch: #StaydelAtHome Findet Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijns Werk "Selbstbildnis radierend am Fenster" (1648) in der Digitalen Sammlung: https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/werk/selbstbildnis-radierend-am-fenster We are intensely drawn into Rembrandt's eyes. How did he achieve this? And what is written on the "curtain"? In the series ASK AN ARTWORK art historian Anna Huber (Educational Department of the Städel Museum) answers the questions that we have for art. Because during the Corona-Crisis, if you can’t come to the Städel Museum, then the Städel Museum will come to you: #StaydelAtHome Find Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's "Self-Portrait etching at a window" (1648) in our Digital Collection: https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/self-portrait-etching-at-a-window

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Self-Portrait etching at a window

Artist

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Period Produced

17th century

Object Type

art print

Physical Description: Etching, dry-point and etching needle

Material

handmade paper

Technique

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert und datiert oben links: Rembrandt f. 1648

Work Catalogues

Bartsch 22 III (von V)

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: Public Domain

Acquisition: Alter Bestand (Sammlungen J. F. Städel oder J. G. Grambs)

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

Main Motif

Persons Shown

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Iconclass

Primary

61B2(REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn)(+522) historical person (REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn) (+ three-quarter view portrait)
48C513 portrait, self-portrait of painter
48C521 draughtsman at work

Secondary