Self-Portrait

Description

A professional engraver and draftsman, Comelis Visscher produced almost 200 engravings-including portraits and genre scenes of his own design-in his short life.

Self-Portrait

Cornelis Visscher

1649

Accession Number

9378

Medium

Etching and engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 13.6 × 9 cm (5 3/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 13.9 × 9.3 cm (5 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.); Sheet: 14.5 × 10 cm (5 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.)

Classification

engraving

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Horace S. Oakley