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Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume · 1938.1792
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Holder
Art Institute of Chicago
Place
Chicago, United States
Accession
1938.1792
Title as catalogued
Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume
Date as catalogued
1638
Medium as catalogued
Etching on buff laid paper
State
Not stated by the institution
Plate
Sheet
123 x 105 mm ('Sheet, cut within platemark: 12.3 x 10.5 cm (4 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)')
Watermark
Collector marks
Provenance
Credit line
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Condition
Rights
is_public_domain: true; API data licensed CC0 1.0
Checked
2026-08-12 — Project — record read directly from the holding institution's own published record

Transcription notes

AIC's record carries NO catalogue reference data at all - publication_history, provenance_text, inscriptions and alt_titles are all null. Identification rests on the exact title plus date 1638 plus medium. IIIF manifest confirmed HTTP 200. The sheet is cut within the platemark, hence markedly smaller than the ~135 x 103 mm plate.

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