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Self-portrait
Also titled Zelfportret
Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk (Amsterdam, 1782–1810)
c. 1809
- Medium
- panel, cardboard, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 51.3 cm x width 40 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
The promising painter Wouter van Troostwijk is said to have died young from a cold he caught while drawing outside at night. An artist’s life could hardly end more romantically! His atelier is pictured in this informal self-portrait, which he made shortly before his death. Grouped together on top of the cupboard are plaster casts of Classical sculptures, the models traditionally used by a painter.
