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Self-Portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Ferdinand Bol (Dordrecht, 1616–1680)
c. 1669
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 127 cm x width 102 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- A. Brondgeest Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
Wearing an embroidered Japanese dressing gown, Bol poses as a man of the world here. He probably painted this self-portrait on the occasion of his marriage to the wealthy widow Anna van Erckel, one of his earliest patrons. The gilded, ornate frame was specially made for the painting. Its large carved sunflowers symbolize marriage: they trail the sun just like a person follows their beloved one.
