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Self-Portrait

Maker

(artist)
1673-1746

(engraver)
1698-1780

Title

Self-Portrait

Date of Production

1753

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2780

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the image, upper margin, black ink: “NIKOLAAS VERKOLJE. // Geboren te Delft, // 11 April, 1673 // Overleden te Amsterd. // 21 January, 1746.”; below the image, on a plaque, black ink: “VERKOLJE, alom beroemd door de eelste kunstafreelen, // Die Stichter van Pictuurs bekoorlykste eertrofeen // Boeir, als aan deze print, ons oof aan zyn panneelen, // En streelt, ja steelt het hart van ieder Protogeen. // Wien zich de Tyber, Seine en Teems ten voorbeeld stellen, // Onze Amstel ziet in hem een Fenix der Apellen. // S. Feitama.”; lower left margin, black ink: “Seipsum pinxit Ao. 1723.”; lower right margin, black ink: “J. Houbraken Sculpsit Ao. 1753.”.

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