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acLual work of his hand. " See also Michel Foucault,

12 Van Mander 1604, fol. 242v.

The Archaeology of Knowledge (London, 1972)

13 Raupp 1984.

[Lranslation of L 'a rcheologie du savoir (Paris, 1969)],

14 Alpers 1988.

chapter 3: "The formation of objects," pp. 40 - 49,

15 H. Perry Chapman, "Rembrandt's 'burgerlijk' self-

for anoLher take on this refreshingly pragmatic

portraits," Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 8 (1989),

methodological insight.

pp. 203 - 15; Chapman 1990. Stephen Greenblatt,

A rare, though famous, exception was the Medician

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to

collecLion of artists' self-portraits. See: Wolfram

Shakespeare (Chicago, 1980).

Prinz, ed., Die Sammlung der Selbstbildnisse in den

16 See Slive 1953, p. 61.

Uffizien (Berlin, 1971); Karla Langedijk, Die Selbstbildnisse der hollandischen und flamischen Kunst/er

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in der Galleria degli Autoritratti der Uffizien in

John Micha e l Montias : A Business

Florenz (Florence, 1992).

P a rtn e r a nd a Pupil : Two Conje c tural

See R. M. Dekker, "Egodocumenten: een literatuur-

E s s a ys on R e mbrandt 's E ntourage

overzicht," Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis 101 (1988),

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pp. 161 - 90. The Erasmus UniversiLy website

I wish Lo acknowledge Lhe generous help in wriLing this

echo.fhk.eur.nl/ego, established by Dr. Dekker and

article of Albert Blankert, Alice Blankert, Marten Jan

his colleagues, is an excellent place Lo start any

Bok, Paul Crenshaw, Agnes Dunselman, Egbert

documentary or bibliographical search.

Haverkamp Begemann, Walter Liedtke, Nadine

See van de Wetering 1999, especially pp. 29-31, for

Orenstein, Gary SchwarLz, Wout Spies, and Christopher

references to the self-portraiture of Rembrandt's

Wood.

Dutch contemporaries. Since presenting this paper I have read E. Griffey, "The artist's role: Searching

Documents are in the Gemeentearchief Amsterdam,

for self-porLraiture in the sevenLeenth-century

unless otherwise stated. Guilders and stuivers are

Netherlands" (dissertaLion, University of London,

abbreviated in the manner: f. 1:10 (one guilder ten stuiv-

2001) which suggests that research into sales of

ers). There are 20 stuivers in a guilder.

collections of paintings in AmsLerdam during the period might produce evidence of a genuine,

1

For two recent exceptions, see Jonathan Bikker,

though small-scale, interest in such pictures.

"The Deutz broLhers, Ilalian paintings and Michie!

Celeste Brusati, for example in her discussion of

Sweerts:

possible meanings of trompe l'oeil: Brusati 1995,

Coymans's Journael," Simiolus 26 (1998), pp. 277 -

pp. 152 -62.

311; and Jaap van der Veen, "Onbekende

His face, copied from self-portrait sources, is found

opdrachtgevers van Rembrandt: Jacomo

in illustrations in SandrarL 1675, facing p. 356; and

Borchgraeff en Maria van Uffelen en hun portret-

Houbraken 1718, facing p. 272.

ten door Rembrandt, Jonson van Ceulen, Van Zijl,

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See Slive 1953, especially pp. 28ff.

Van Mo! en Jacob Backer," Kroniek van het

8

Rosenberg 1948.

Rembrandthuis 98 (1998), pp. 15 -3 1.

9

Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (London,

5

6

2

The identification of the witness to the testament of

1966), p. 256 [translation of La pensee sauvage

Rembrandt and Saskia van Uylenburgh turned out

(Paris, 1962)].

to be a main bu il di ng block for my second piece of

10 De Vries 1989. 11

ew informaLion from Elisabeth

Christian Ti.impel, "S tudien zur Ikonographie der

archival research in the text below. 3

In some Dutch archives (Haags Gemeentearchief,

Historien RembrandLs," Nederlands Kunshistorisch

The Hague; Gemeentearchief Schiedam), all notar-

Jaarboek 20 (1969), pp. 107 -98, especially pp. 160 ff.

ial documents have been indexed and can easily

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