Self-portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
c. 1670
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 73 cm x width 62 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
A distinguished citizen dressed in decorous black is seated before a red curtain and tassel. Jan Steen, known primarily for his humorous scenes with simple folk, portrayed himself here as utterly self-assured. He also regularly included himself in other paintings, but then usually in a comic role.
