Self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 7 in. × 4 7/16 in. (17.8 × 11.2 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 × 7 3/4 in. (28.8 × 19.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1953
Accession Number
53.685.100
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous|Auguste Delâtre|Peter Paul Rubens|Peter Paul Rubens
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...