id:			120097
accession number:	1940.879
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.879
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:43.764000

Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Etching and drypoint; sheet: 21.5 x 17.1 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.); platemark: 20.5 x 16.4 cm (8 1/16 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.879

title:				Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill
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creation date:			1639
creation date earliest:		1639
creation date latest:		1639
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creditline:			Bequest of James Parmelee
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	etching and drypoint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 21 (XVIII.9)

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CREATORS

* Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 21.5 x 17.1 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.); Platemark: 20.5 x 16.4 cm (8 1/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
state of the work:	ii/ii
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support materials:

	description:	beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	upper left, in plate: Rembrandt f / 1639 ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: B 21 II ; lower center, in graphite: C 13345 J. P.  ; lower center, in graphite: K5016 / C5315 ; lower center, in graphite: D 9066- ; lower right, in graphite: 27585 P 55 1/4
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
	opening date:   1955-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>Dutch Painting, The Golden Age</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

	title:		Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
	opening date:   1973-07-10T04:00:00
	<i>Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

	title:		Prints by Rembrandt and His Circle
	opening date:   1984-01-24T05:00:00
	<i>Prints by Rembrandt and His Circle</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-May 25, 1984).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Jan Baptist de Graff (1742-1804), Amsterdam, stamped (Lugt 1120), verso, lower center, in black. Dr. August Sträter (1810-1897), Aix-la-Chapelle, recto, stamp (Lugt 787), lower right, blind stamp; James Parmelee, Cleveland, Ohio; gift, 1940
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Watkins, Catherine Bailey. <em>Rembrandt's 1654 Life of Christ Prints: Experimentation, Tradition, and the Question of Series.</em> 2011.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 217, fig. 87
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