Self-portrait
Artist: Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)
Date: 1647
Dimensions:
H: 39 5/8 in. (100.6 cm); W: 35 1/16 in. (89.1 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of George P. MacNichol, Jr.
Object number: 1980.1347
Label Text:A student and assistant of Rembrandt’s from the early 1630s to about 1642, Ferdinand Bol became a successful portraitist working in Amsterdam. This self-portrait, painted when Bol was about 31, shows the direct influence of his famous teacher. Bol based his pose and composition on the 1639 etched self-portrait (see illustration) and a 1640 painted self-portrait by Rembrandt, which Rembrandt himself based on portraits by Italian Renaissance artists Raphael and Titian. Bol, like Rembrandt, depicts himself dressed in Renaissance finery (which was already a century out of fashion) in order to associate himself both with the social status of an Italian Renaissance courtier and with the famous and revered artists of that earlier era.
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