Artwork Details
17-3/8 x 13-5/8 x 3/4 in. (panel) 27-1/2 x 23-15/16 x 2-3/4 in. (framed)
Accession NumberThe Clowes Collection
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color PaletteProvenance
Provenance
Possibly sale at (Pieter Locquet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 22 September 1783, lot no. 325; Possibly Pierre Yver.{1} Purchased from a Dutch diplomat in Vienna, Austria, about 1840 by the Polish Count Adolf Husarzewski;{2} To his son, Count Jozef Husarzewski, and his wife, Karolina, née Princess Jablonowska; To their daughter, Countess Eleonora Husarzewska [1866-1940], wife of Prince Andrzej Lubomirski, in their castle at Przeworsk (now Poland); To their son, Prince Jerzy Rafal Lubomirski [1887-1978], Geneva, Switzerland; (Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, New York) in 1951{3}; Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1951; Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, since 1958; On long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, since 1971; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 2023. {1} Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, volume 6, London, England, 1916, no. 549, cites this early provenance, but the authors of the Rembrandt Research Project believe it applies to another version. For a thorough study of IMA's painting including provenance and exhibition history, see Stephanie S. Dickey, Rembrandt Face to Face, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006. {2} See contributions by Jerzy Mycielski and Leon Pininski in Miecislas Treter, ed., Album de l'Exposition des Maîtres Anciens, avec cinquante reproductions, Ossolinski National Institute, Lvov, 1911. {3} See correspondence in IMA Clowes Registration Archive (C10063).
Gallery Labels
Gallery Labels
Over the course of more than forty years, Rembrandt portrayed his own likeness at least seventy-five times. In this highly unconventional work, painted when Rembrandt was in his early twenties, the artist casts much of his face in deep shadow and obscures most of its outward appearance. His lips parted in spontaneous speech and his eyes all but invisible, Rembrandt's self-portrait conveys an intense preoccupation with his own artistic identity and inner imagination.
Study your emotions in front of a mirror, where you can be both performer and beholder.
-Samuel van Hoogstraten, 1678
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
August 24, 2019 - December 1, 2019
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