Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Self-portrait, drawing
Details
Bartsch 22; White/Boon 22 V (from V); Hinterding/Rutgers (The New Hollstein) 240 VIII (from IX).
Description
Good, high-contrast and clear impression of the penultimate state with the newly added lines below the nose. With a fine margin around the plate edge. The sheet shows Rembrandt as a mature widower in a simple working garment. After Saskia died in 1642, Rembrandt was still living with Geertje Dirx in 1648. It is an emphatically simple situation, an everyday working moment, which shows the artist looking up while etching or drawing. In his contemplative gaze, he reflects on his work as a draughtsman or etcher – a theme that he took up again in an etching from 1658. Our sheet was created nine years after the “Self-portrait with raised arm” from 1639. This late self-portrait in a larger format is one of the most sought-after of his entire graphic oeuvre. – With small foxmarks and three minor abrasions to the paper on the reverse, otherwise a fine impression.
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