Self-Portrait
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.6 × 9 cm (5 3/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 13.9 × 9.3 cm (5 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.); Sheet: 14.5 × 10 cm (5 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9378
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
A professional engraver and draftsman, Comelis Visscher produced almost 200 engravings-including portraits and genre scenes of his own design-in his short life.
About the Artist
Cornelis Visscher · 1629–1658
Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...