# Self-portrait

- By: Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk (Amsterdam, 1782–1810)
- Date: c. 1809
- Medium: panel, cardboard, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 51.3 cm x width 40 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4857--c5469129503fe97dc4fb0dc388be4bf1)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/quBNB/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.