Portrait of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Also titled Portret van Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
c. 1533
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 37.8 cm x width 29.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Long accepted as the earliest known north Netherlandish self-portrait, this is probably a copy after a lost work. Such portraits illustrate the increasing status of artists. Jacob, whose traditional nickname means ‘son of Cornelis from Oostsanen’, looks directly at us. Behind him is a paper with the date 1533 and his monogram, I W (inverted) v A (‘J[acob] W[ar] v[an] A[msterdam]’).
