Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, 1638

  • Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate (and sheet): 5 1/4 × 4 1/8 inches (13.3 × 10.5 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman

46.174

Signed and dated, in plate, upper left of image: Rembrandt f | 1638

Stamp, in black, verso: A. Hubert Stamp, in blue, verso: C. Sclosser Stamp, in black, verso: E. Smith, Jr.

Carl Schlosser (Elberfeld, Germany)

Edward Smith, Jr. (London, England)

Alfred Hubert (Paris, France). 1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press (May 18, 1986): p. 35 (ill.). From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 4 (fig. 5 ill.), p. 13.

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Self Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, 1638, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman, 46.174.