id: 114751 accession number: 1934.350 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.350 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:03.732000 Self-Portrait Drawing at a Window, 1648. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching, drypoint, and engraving; sheet: 17.3 x 14.5 cm (6 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.); platemark: 15.6 x 12.9 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1934.350 title: Self-Portrait Drawing at a Window title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1648 creation date earliest: 1648 creation date latest: 1648 current location: creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: etching, drypoint, and engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 22 (XVIII.10) --- CREATORS * Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 17.3 x 14.5 cm (6 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.); Platemark: 15.6 x 12.9 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.) state of the work: v/v edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper right, in plate: Rembrandt. f 1648 ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower left, in graphite: i8 ; lower left, in graphite: VVD ; lower center, in graphite: B. 22 IX ; translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Accessions of Prints, 1933-34 opening date: 1935-02-20T05:00:00 Recent Accessions of Prints, 1933-34. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-March 13, 1935). title: Prints by Rembrandt from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-11-28T05:00:00 Prints by Rembrandt from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 28, 1937-March 8, 1938). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq, dit Des Tournelles (1818-1882), Paris, stamped (Lugt 1336), verso, lower right, in blue. Leonard Colton Hanna, Jr. (1889-1957), Cleveland, Ohio; gift, 1934 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In order to show himself with the direct gaze that characterizes this self-portrait, Rembrandt translated a view seen while studying himself in a mirror. digital description: In this late self-portrait—one of more than 80 created by Rembrandt van Rijn—the artist shows himself informally posed at a studio window. He uses a needle to draw into a copper etching plate and gazes directly at the viewer as if interrupted in the process of creating a work of art. The window provides the light required to complete this task, but it also reveals the isolation of art making by juxtaposing Rembrandt’s interior space with the expansive landscape and external world from which he has sequestered himself. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Salsbury, Britany. “Open Windows.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 26. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 26. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.350/1934.350_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.350/1934.350_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1934.350/1934.350_full.tif