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Self-portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Nijmegen, 1530–ca.)
c. 1573 - c. 1580
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- bust
- Dimensions
- height 23 cm x width 28 cm x depth 14 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the SponsorBingo Loterij and the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
To make this small bust – it is half life-size – the sculptor had to resort to all kinds of tricks with a mirror. Van der Schardt did not portray himself frontally, but with his head turned sideways, as if to avoid looking at the viewer. The nude upper torso alludes to sculpture from Classical antiquity.
