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Self-Portrait at the Age of 63
Rembrandt van Rijn
Painted in the final year of Rembrandt's life, with a heavily worked surface that resists any change in tension.
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Date
- 1669
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 86 × 70.5 cm
- Location
- The National Gallery, London
History
What the record shows
One of some eighty self-portraits, and the most unsparing of the late group.
The canvas has an old lining; loan conditions require constant relative humidity and a sealed frame package.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Amsterdam, 1669
- 02English private collections, 18th–19th centuries
- 03Bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1851
