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Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul
This is Rembrandt’s first and only self portrait in the guise of a biblical figure. The manuscript and the sword projecting from his cloak are Paul’s traditional attributes. Like the other apostles Rembrandt painted in the same period, Paul too is a real, everyday person. By using his own likeness here Rembrandt encourages a direct bond with the saint.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11H(PAUL)9
- http://iconclass.org/48C513
- Rijn, Rembrandt van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11H(PAUL)9
- http://iconclass.org/48C513
- Rijn, Rembrandt van
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1661
- 1661
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ? Estate inventory, Eberhard Jabach (1618-95), Paris, 17 July 1696, no. 123 ('Portrait de Rimbrands, ayant un linge blanc autour de sa test, 1/2 figure grande comme le naturel, de luy-mesme. 100 liv[res]’);{The number ‘123’ painted on the reverse of the stretcher in imitation of the original corresponds to the number in the 1696 posthumous inventory; for the inventory see Grouchy 1894, pp. 249−92, esp. p. 255.} ...; ? collection Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), Rome; from his widow, Marie-Thérèse Gosset (1703-56), 100 scudi, to Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini (1685-1770), Rome, before 1750;{According to the Inventario dei quadri comprati coi proprii denari avventizii dall’Emo Sig.s Cardinal Neri Maria Cosini, no. 15: ‘Dalla Vedova Wleughel. Il proprio Ritratto di Reimbrant s[cudi] 100’. The painting is no. 164 in the 1750 Inventario di tutti i quadri of Palazzo Corsini: ‘Il Ritratto di Reimbrant di sua mano, comprato sc[udi] 100. Comprato da Madama Wleughles’.} ...; purchased from the Corsini collection, by the London art dealer William Buchanan (1777-1864), summer 1807;{According to a label transferred from the original stretcher to the present one: ‘From the Corsini Palace of Rome / brought to England by William Buchanan Esq. in Summer 1807’.} from whom, 500 guineas, to Charles Kinnaird (1780-1826), 8th Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory near Dundee, before 2 January 1809;{Buchanan 1824, vol. 2, p. 179, no. 4. The painting was first recorded in the Kinnaird collection in the inscription to a reproductive mezzotint by Charles Turner (1773-1857): ‘Rembrandt. A Portrait of himself. Bought from the collection of the Corsini family at Rome by Mr Buchanan. 3’ by 2’6 1/8 Pubd. Jan. 2. 1809’.} from the Kinnaird collection, £ 47,500, to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Gertruida van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 28 May 1936; from whom on loan to the museum, 1956-60; by whom bequeathed to the museum, December 1960
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5280
- SK-A-4050
Extent
- height 91 cm
- width 77 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1661
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:06.088Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:59.743Z