Self Portrait Etching at a Window

Download image: 
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669
Self Portrait Etching at a Window
1648
Etching and drypoint on paper.
160 x 130 mm
RvR 29
NHD 240, IV
Provenance: 
John Barnard (d.1784), London; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Inscription: 

Signed and dated in drypint on the banner upper left, "Rembrandt. f 1648" (in state II).

Notes: 

Watermark: None.
Landscape added. Cross hatching on window frame. Heavy reworking including drypoint work on the jacket, and shading on the window frame and the scroll. Signature shaded out. (White and Boon)

School: 
Century: 
Classification: 
Department: