Self-Portrait
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and engraving in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 13.7 × 14.9 cm (5 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 14.6 × 15.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
183288
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine was a French artist who was primarily active in Poland. This searing Self-Portrait, made when the artist was 33, suggests the enormous influence of Rembrandt's chiaroscuro drypoints and in particular his Self-Portrait at a Window of 1648 (available for viewing upon appointment in the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings).