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Self-portrait in a flat cap and embroidered dress
(c. 1642)
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 6.6 × 5.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 26; Hind 157; White & Boon 26; NHD 210 i/iii
- Edition
- 1st of 3 states
- Accession Number
- 20-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1933
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- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Rembrandt made some eighty painted, etched and drawn self-portraits over the course of his career – more than any artist before him. These images served a variety of functions at different points in his career. Some of Rembrandt’s earliest etchings are tiny plates in which he used his own face to explore the expression of emotion. From the 1630s he also used his own features in several tronies (character heads) in which he depicted himself in exotic or historicising costumes. In others his identity as a celebrated artist was important and these were made for the collector market of such images. Here, although Rembrandt wears a Renaissance slit doublet, the artist’s ageeing face is depicted without idealisation.