Self-Portrait at the Age of 34
1640 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery, London
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About this work
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
- Year
- 1640
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 102 × 80 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery, London
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age
In 1640 Rembrandt was the most sought-after portraitist in Amsterdam, and this is how he chose to show it. He leans on a stone parapet in a velvet beret, fur-trimmed coat and a slashed sleeve, dressed not in the fashion of his own day but in the costume of a gentleman of the 1520s. The pose borrows from two Renaissance portraits he had seen in Amsterdam, Raphael's Baldassare Castiglione and Titian's Man with a Quilted Sleeve, and he had sketched the Raphael at auction the year before, noting its price. The parapet deepens the space and makes the picture read like a window. The message is deliberate: an artist claiming the rank of a gentleman and the company of the great Italians. Analysis at the National Gallery, London, where the painting is NG672, identified a sparse palette of lead white, bone and charcoal black, ochres and vermilion.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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