Self-Portrait, c. 1637

Inscription

on verso notes in graphite

Provenance

NGA Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1932d)

Exhibition History

1929

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1500, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1929, no. 574.

1930

Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930.

1930

Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.

1936

Rembrandt and his Circle, Worcester Art Museum, MA, 1936, no. 60 (not shown at Art Institute of Chicago venue).

1947

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 1.

1953

Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.

1956

Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1956, no. 70.

1958

Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.

1960

Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 28, repro.

1962

Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.

1966

Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1969

Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, Art Institute of Chicago; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Detroit Institute of Arts, 1969-1970, no. 111, repro.

1969

Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 28, 36, repro.

1977

Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Denver Art Museum; and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1977, no. 30, repro.

1978

Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 54.

1982

Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 15, repro.

1999

Rembrandt By Himself (Rembrandt Zelf), The National Gallery, London; Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen "Mauritshuis", The Hague, 1999-2000, no. 45.

2003

Rembrandt's Journey: Painter. Draftsman. Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago, 2003-2004, no. 80.

2006

Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1925

Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Handzeichnungen. New York, 1925: no. 662

1969

National Gallery of Art. Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art: Commemorating the tercentenary of the artist's death. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1969: 36, no. 28, repro.

1973

Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 437

1977

Robinson 1977, 30.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 667, no. 1058, color repro.

1992

National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 320, repro.

1995

Alger, Sandra L.H. Games for Teaching Art. Portland, Maine, 1995: 17, 26, 45 (reproduced on each).

1999

White, Christopher, and Quentin Buvelot, ed. Rembrandt by Himself. Exh.cat. National Gallery, London, 1999: cat. no. 45 (repro.).

2009

Slive, Seymour. Rembrandt Drawings. Los Angeles, 2009: no. 1.9

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