Zelfportret

Backhuijzen, Gerrit (born ca. 1700 or 1721, died 1760)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1745-1760
Height:
30.0 cm  (11 13/16 in.)
Width:
25.0 cm  (9 13/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Self-portrait

    Item location

  • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
    [Museum inv. no.: SK-A-2199]

Description

The painter portrayed himself behind the canvas he was painting, with a transverse flute in his right hand and a violin hanging from the easel. He is holding a palette on his left hand.

People as subjects

Backhuijzen, Gerrit (born ca. 1700 or 1721, died 1760) (Musician portrait)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]
Violin [3573]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Rijksmuseum record
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RKD record

Bibliographic references

Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1976) 95. ISBN: 9061790107.

Boon, Karel G. Het zelfportret in de Nederlandsche en Vlaamsche schilderkunst (Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1947) 70, plate 47.

Niemeijer, J.W. "Twee portretten van Ludolf Bakhuysen de Jonge door Cornelis Troost", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 10/4 (1962) 147-149.

RIdIM record id

2900