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Object Type
print
Museum number
F,6.106
Description
Self-portrait of the painter Willem Drost, seen in profile and facing left, in front of an easel and holding a pencil in his right hand Etching and drypoint
Producer name
Print made by:
Willem Drost
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1650
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
drypoint
Dimensions
Height:
69 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
63 millimetres
Curator's comments
For an (undescribed) early proof of this plate, see also 1848,0911.210. For comment on a copy of this print by Basan, see 1941,0327.11.60.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(2)
Rovinski 1894 / L'oeuvre gravé des élèves de Rembrandt
(unnumbered)
(described in col.67)
Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated
(355)
(Rejected as Rembrandt)
White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue
(328)
(as Drost)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
self-portrait
draughtsman/painter
Associated names
Portrait of:
Willem Drost
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(monogram with date 1798; Barnard sale, T. Philipe, 10.v.1798/389 (bt by John Thane for Cracherode; £1.16.0))
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
John Barnard
(L.1419)
Acquisition notes
Sold in one lot with F,6.107.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
F,6.106
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
1983,U.303