Self-portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Giambologna (Douai, 1524–1608)
c. 1600
- Medium
- slate (rock), gypsum
- Classification
- bust
- Dimensions
- height 15.3 cm x width 12.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Around 1600 Giambologna was considered the most famous sculptor active in Europe. The detailing of this polychromed plaster statue closely resembles that of his bronze self-portrait displayed nearby. Both versions would have been made from the same wax model.
